On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:51:13AM +0100, a b wrote: > On packaging systems / formats that already support hierarchichal bundling > of software, there is a notion of a > > depot > bundle > product > subproduct > fileset
It seems awfully complicated to give each level of the heirarchy a different name, and somewhat arbitrary to fix the heirarchy at five levels (though I guess only three are required). Have those choices proven really natural in practice? It also seems strange that that "[c]ustomer creation of bundles is not supported". Why would that not be a useful operation for a customer or ISV? We'll have the concept of the depot (in fact, our server is currently called pkg.depotd, though we've been calling the depot the repository, a la conary), and the fileset (package), but filesets will be hierarchical. Danek
