On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote: > case, when using the distro-installed package, the user is not > supposed to manage it with the language-specific manager anymore.
Fair enough, can't have package managers fighting over ownership. For instance, I would like to make LuaGnome available to Debian/Ubuntu/etc? users of LuaRocks, through the native liblua5.1-gnome-0 package. So the task is to write a rockspec which tells LR about the new modules and establishes a 'virtual' LR package. Still thinking of the best strategy for this ... the idea is that I could then package LuaGnome scripts and give LuaGnome as a LR dependency. (the properties of a virtual package: it is _managed_ by the native package manager and so LR will not mess with any of the .so files already installed. The rockspec may have a payload looking like 'aptitude install liblua5.1-gnome-0') > the distribution's package manager, to avoid redoing that work and to > allow the language-specific managers to be, if not "native citizens", > at least "resident aliens" in the system: That is a very interesting article, good organized thinking... steve d _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
