Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Joseph Kowalski wrote: >> I think the concept of CCD is simply bad. We should not be providing >> a recompilation and packaging service. We should be providing assistance >> to the ultimate code maintainers to provide Solaris "packages" just >> like they >> provide RPMs (or whatever) for Linux. > > Wearing my hat as a code maintainer for one of the major open source > upstream communities (X.Org), we provide the same set of packages for > all OS'es - those are source tarballs only. We don't provide RPM's, > debs, gentoo ebuilds, SVR4 packages, or any sort of binaries - there > are simply too many different versions of different distros, with > different package systems, dependencies, supported platforms, to even > begin. The only thing we (or many other upstreams) can support is > source release, and expecting each distro to provide it's own packages. > We don't have a warehouse to fill with the hundreds of machines > necessary, > nor do we have the number of volunteers necessary, to provide packages > for any OS. > > I just don't see trying to push package building upstream as a viable > solution at all. > Uh, isn't X.org the exception rather than the rule?
If I have this backwards (and most communities only provide source), then my apologies to all. I have noted that few provide "dpkg" format. You need to go to Debian or Ubuntu to get that. Could it be that RPM just occupies a special, historical nitche? - jek3
