On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > Unfortunately this promptly destroys the requirement for different > package managers to co-operate. It's all very well permitting unfettered > competition between managers, but it is currently impossible to > guarantee that one package manager will (even minimally) work reasonably > with a distribution based on a different manager. rpm won't work on > Corel, dpkg won't work on SuSE. And it doesn't matter a damn whether my
Who cares? Isn't all that matter that you can install packages from any distribution on any other? A standard package file format does exactly that. The database format you propose will be extremely slow btw. I know that Red Hat, and I'm sure that Debian, spend an inordinate amount of timing on their database design to make sure tha t large package transactions run as quickly as possible. As long as the tol is standardized well enough, installing packages and querying packages across distributions will work just fine. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
