Hi Vagelis,
The packaging systems need some information (not just the installation
files) like "depends on", "provides" etc. Especially the "depends
on" helps
the system to identify what other packages are needed for a correct
installation.
Yes, and this would mean that we should only distribute
two Linux binary packages, one for each packaging: .rpm and .deb.
But, what we have done so far is to distribute Harbour Linux
binaries for 'connectiva', 'mandriva', 'suse', 'debian', etc.
What I wonder if it's possible to reduce this clutter and
just provide one .deb and one .rpm, maybe one simple .tgz.
(plus the source of course which should work everywhere).
It would make the release cycle much smoother as we wouldn't
have to wait for each distro users to submit a packages, and
it would be also much more clear for the user. Now one may
think that some distros not having a download package aren't
even supported.
For my point of view (since i am a user of arch linux) the
make_gnu.sh along
with the environment vars makes harbour distro-independed.
Yes, source packages can build everywhere (and this is what
I use), but the question is about binary packages.
Brgds,
Viktor
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