On 25 Mar, 2008, at 20:11, Alexander Michael wrote:
You can see Floris Bruynooghe's response earlier in the thread, but basically it is an even harder problem to create packages for every major platform automatically than it is to create a simple database of installed packages that plays well with every major package manager.
Why is that? Looking in from the peanut gallery the major problemwith automaticly creating OS packages is political, in that some packagers
don't believe that developers could create valid OS packages. The technical issues seem small compared to that. Ronald
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