On 2015-08-20 18:09, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
Martinx - ジェームズ <[email protected]> writes:

I just saw this "Ubuntu Snappy" news today...

And immediately I remembered about this thread...

"Build system smart / Packaging dumb"

http://blog.liw.fi/posts/debian-developing-it-wrong/

Do we talked about this:

www.ubuntu.com/snappy

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/tutorials/build-snaps/

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/packaging-format-apps/

Or, at least, something like this?

Could you perhaps elaborate on what exactly you're up to? People have
been bitching about the 'mess' created by integrating different packages
into a unified system and make them use shared infrastructure, eg,
libraries, for aeons, presumably, since the concept of 'shared objects'
was introduced by Sun in 1988. Especially people used to doing
commercial development for Windows.

I didn't follow the ubuntu links, and I don't know anything about the 'debian/rules' and packaging other than what's explained by the debian veteran in his paper ... and it sounded good to me.

As a refugee from systemd I'm investigating gentoo as well as devuan and frankly, the source distribution is looking - potentially - very attractive. The author above is talking about sources. I say attractive, because I'm 2 or 3 days into my first gentoo install and I haven't yet got x11 running.

I did take a break from my 'new' machine install to install a gentoo specialization named lil blue in a qemu vm on my old machine and it went great ... just the kind of thing that the author above ... Lars Wirzenius ... is talking about.

As I say, I know next to nothing about the inside of debian, and less about gentoo ... I've run caldera, redhat, ubuntu, debian over the past twenty years ... Sys V and Xenix before that ... with the switch to debian when ubuntu started calling home at v12, I think ... and it's finally dawned on me that the 'big boys' are trying to morph linux into microsoft or google or you pick the metaphor for top down catastrophe. I think back to sources with the energy put into the build system will be the salvation of open source software ... if it is saved.

But I'm definitely just another bozo on the bus. What do I know?

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