On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 14:57 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 21 juin 2008 à 13:20 +0200, Yaakov Nemoy a écrit :
>
> > How is this different than PackageKit?
>
> It would make possible for ISVs to create packages in a non-native
> packaging format, so they don't have to care about the
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:51 +0200, Denis Washington wrote:
> Some time ago, it was discussed on an LSB face-to-face meeting that an
> API should be developed that allows ISVs to install sotware packages
> which integrate into the package manager - the "Berlin Packaging API".
> While the idea seemed
To the Debian XML/SGML Group:
I use the package docbook-utils on Ubuntu Hardy. Your group is listed as
the maintainer. Currently the dependencies of this package include:
--- lynx | links | w3m
Is it really necessary that one have one of those three specific
browsers? I'd like to use elinks
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:48:10PM +0200, Denis Washington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some time ago, it was discussed on an LSB face-to-face meeting that an
> API should be developed that allows ISVs to install sotware packages
> which integrate into the package manager - the "Berlin Packaging API".
> While
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 16:18 +0200, Denis Washington wrote:
> The problem I currently see with single-click install is that it still
> relies on a single package format (.rpm), so there would have to be
> several packages of the same application again. Another particular
> problem I see is security:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Denis Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think this is a corner case at all. For one thing, propietary
> applications might just don't play a role _because_ there is no really
> good distribution method for them - the typical chicken-and-egg problem.
>
>> I think you are looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
>> For the corner cases of where this does apply (proprietary software)
>> this is not enough of a use case to justify all the work required.
>
>I don't think this is a corner case at all. For one thing, propietary
>applicat
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any particular reason that it never went anywhere?
While on the subject, I was wondering the same thing about debtorrent,
which I've been told would help with the server loads when people
upgrade to a new release.
--
Ton
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:34:31PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Denis Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't think this is a corner case at all. For one thing, propietary
> > applications might just don't play a role _because_ there is no really
> > good di
Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> Specify both packages at the command line at the same time, e.g. with apt:
>
> apt-get install libstdc++6-4.2-dev g++-4.2.deb
You know, this really does seem like a bug in apt. If it can resolve
the circular dependency when you explicitly specify both packages, it
sh
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