On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote: > > > I for one just hate dpkg and friends! :) > > > > If I just can get gcc to work under Hurd I'll be happy again! :) > > > > Seriously, I do think that to make Hurd more popular and more widely used > > we need to move away from the .deb way only as fast as possible. The most > > popular Linux systems out there is still rpm based, and to attract more > > developers to Hurd I think we need a distro based on something else than > > .deb, but I think that this might not be the best place to discuss it. > > > > If someone has any pointers for me where stuff like this is discussed > > though, or want to start discussion them. Please mail me! > > The great part is that this software is GPLd, so you're welcome to do > 'home brew' type of work. I used to do this, and found that I learned > alot about how the Hurd works very quickly.
Would I be here if it wasn't GPLd? :) > However: Thomas, Roland, Marcus, and Gord use Debian, and like using > the Debian BTS for tracking bugs. I think Neal uses Debian. I only > report porting problems to the upstream Debian maintainers, and it's > up to them if they'd like to report portability problems to the > upstream. You may find that not using .deb's is a long uphill battle > without a tremendous amount of support. But of course not! It's never easy to start a new distrobution. I just found the idea interesting. I don't know .deb but I know rpm and Solaris pkgadd and I'd like to use them. If someone else hav had the same thought, please send me a letter. I'll not hinder or bother you. I just wanted to try to find someone who felt it was a good idea. If nobode has done any work to try to pu together a Hurd distro based on e.g. rpm then I think it should be done, and I'm ready to start lokking into it as soon I know more about the Hurd. I don't expect it to be an easy job. I'm not /that/ naive! :) Well, now back to our regular scheduled discussions, right? /andreas
