Wow, good info, Trevor. Here is a picture of what the architecture looks like
http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream/Implementation And here are some more notes about their meeting http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/Meetings/AppInstaller2011 This project has quite a bit of potential, IMO. Rog On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Trevor Benedict <mre...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTA1MA > > Recently in Germany there was a cross-distribution meeting among the major > vendors (Red Hat, Canonical, Novell, Debian, Mandriva, etc) to discuss a > common application installer for Linux and one unified application store / > market-place. The goal would be to have a common user-interface for > application installation, how/what meta-data to use, determine a defined > protocol for non-static meta-data, and decide what meta-data to share across > distributions. > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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