also sprach Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.com [2009.11.28.1600 +0100]:
Don't get me wrong, you have a noble goal, but if my experience
with vcs-pkg.org is any indication, then the aforementioned
large distros don't care.
Why should Debian, RedHat/Fedora, and probably
2009/11/29 martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net:
also sprach Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.com [2009.11.29.1049
+0100]:
Do you have any estimation how long it would take for the time
invested into development, deployment, and bug fixing to be
amortised?
No, I don't unfortunately.
also sprach Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.com [2009.11.29.1618 +0100]:
It's the same here, except that instead of money you're investing
time, and instead of education you get a more efficient system. At
least that's how I see it. I might be wrong and this system might
not be more
also sprach Tom Arnold t0m4rn...@gmail.com [2009.11.29.1230 +0100]:
I know there have been many attempts and I think it is kind of sad
that RH, Novell and Debian can't agree on something LSB-based.
Serving users is never wrong and it would certainly make the pie
bigger for everybody.
But
also sprach Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.com [2009.11.29.1948 +0100]:
Not really. It's possible to standardise just on shared libraries for
example. Providing the software is self-contained, it will be able to
work on compliant distributions if it just uses those libraries to
interact
Sorry, accidentally pressed send...
2009/11/29 madd...@madduck.net:
Yes, in some ways that would be nice, but there'd be disadvantages.
First of all, as I just wrote, dependence on commercial players
would shrink, so don't expect much support from them. Second, the
one-size-fits-all distro
2009/11/29 martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net:
also sprach Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.com [2009.11.29.1948
+0100]:
Not really. It's possible to standardise just on shared libraries for
example. Providing the software is self-contained, it will be able to
work on compliant
also sprach Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.com [2009.11.29.2101 +0100]:
To remove redundancy, you'd have to remove the metadata from the
binary packages. That's surely doable, but would also mean that
a single .deb file would become useless: you could not obtain meta
data from it,
2009/11/29 martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net:
also sprach Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.com [2009.11.29.2101
+0100]:
To remove redundancy, you'd have to remove the metadata from the
binary packages. That's surely doable, but would also mean that
a single .deb file would become
