On Friday 27 June 2008 14:25:42 Matt Lawrence wrote: > Hi. I would first of all like to congratulate all of you on not just > being "yet another Linux distro". You guys have contributed so much > more than the vast majority of distributions out there and I wish you > and your distribution well. > > For your benefit, I would like to draw your attention to another > project, namely Zero Install. This suggestion comes up every so often, and I don't think it's going to go anywhere this time either. You can use Zero Install on GoboLinux, of course, and I think some people do. > This project has the ability to automatically fetch and install dependencies. It also has other requirements for its binaries that match your > requirements, such as the binary must be portable This is *not* a requirement, and in general packages will not work if you move them elsewhere. Sometimes they do, but it's not planned that way.
All in all, there just isn't a lot of advantage to moving to a different packaging system. There could be slightly more software available, but it would require maintaining two systems in parallel and reformulating all of the tools. And we generally shy away from encouraging people to install from arbitrary locations on the internet. The package store will expand once the CompileFarm work on having the recipe tree be built automatically comes online. -Michael
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