On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Rahul Dave wrote:
> A long long time ago, when LSB was starting up, > I wrote a proposal to use RDF metadata in a package management system: the > idea > was to let binary and source and other installations all co-exist, without > affecting multiple databases. Basically there would be an API which installers > would use, and which would have to be implemented by pakage managers.. > Its at > http://reno.cis.upenn.edu/~rahul/standards/packrdf/ Yes i remember it, but at the times the most were thinking that rpm should have been promoted as the ufficial packet manager... > > There wasnt much interest then, so I dropped the whole idea..but since the > topic > came up again, I thought I'd bring it up again, incase there is anything > useful > (which I still think there is..) > Rahul Also now i still think that tgz as is managed by slackware is the simpler and most flexible package system. we could please conside the opportunity to eveolve this one instead of haveing so mutch pain with rpm? i am following this discussion with a lot of interess, but sometime i think we are loosing the central point, that is to have a clean, painless (smart dependences), usefull packages system. Luigi Genoni
