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.
I am puzzled. I run a Linux distro mirror, and most of the distos have vast binary repositories or appstores, some have source repositories. I don't see them going away. They are vital for the distro infrastructure, Android and Apple have even vaster binary appstores, which were key to their successes. Microsoft failed to have a well-equipped appstore, and I think this was key to MS failing and folding in the smartphone market. So this is key technology for Linux/unix systems, or am I wrong? I understand that this was not the percieved purpose of LSB, which was intended for ISV's Keld _______________________________________________ lsb-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lsb-discuss
