On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 05:18:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > [email protected] writes: > > > 1. building appstores or repositories that can be used by different > > Linux distributions, comforming to different levels of LSB, and then > > populated by different apps devellopers, hopefully including big > > packages like gnome and kde, and possibly also packagers picking up > > sources, maybe even debian packagers. In this way even smaller distros > > could have a large set of packages, and developpers could have one place > > to address a lot of distros. This could be built for the different > > architectures including i386, amd64 and arm. > > This is a dying mechanism of software distribution. You can achieve the > same goal by shipping a container or some container-like thing that > includes all the shared libraries you care about.
It seems a waiste of space if you install many such packages. and where is the appstore for all of these packages? It seems like you and others don't grasp what I am talking about. > Given the lead time for a new standardization effort, I'm dubious there > will be any remaining use case for this by the time a standard ships. > Containers solve the problem of isolation from OS-level software changes > in a more thorough and far less expensive way than trying to standardize > the OS-level ABI. many distros still supports lsb 3.1 or 4.1 keld _______________________________________________ lsb-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lsb-discuss
