>> This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up >> reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus >> tools like apt for downloading and installing them. > > But seriously, does the XO really need two package managers? What's > wrong with Fedora/RPM/yum? Do people really need to spend ergs on > supporting Debian?
Neither APT/dpkg/deb nor yum/.rpm toolkits have, that I know of, any kind of support in them right now that would let them work safely with something like Bitfrost/Rainbow/security domains. This is, obviously, a pretty important thing for Linux in general, across all distributions, and particularly for projects like OLPC. Some wheel-reinvention may go on, possibly more than once, before dust settles and folks agree on a common solution that is more than just a one-off hack to support OLPC. [Something like Conary, or IPS, or whatever someone finally does the legwork to make extensible into bitfrost/rainbow-land.... I suppose there could be considered to be an arms race of getting the technology worked out to do the right things with minimal hassle :-)] --e _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
