Ignacio Marambio Cat?n wrote: > On Nov 13, 2007 11:23 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > >> Impedance mismatch alert! >> >> >> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:36:19PM +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: >> > ... Having the ability for all distributions to pull from >> > the same repository with a different set of recipes seems like the most >> ideal >> > way to share our work. >> >> and >> >> > Keith M Wesolowski wrote: >> > A consequence of this approach is that what gets built can't depend on >> > *anything* about the build system, and the tools *must* completely >> > cleanse the environment. >> >> Glynn and I are talking about a BINARY Repository of pre-built packages. >> >> Keith seems to be focused on a SOURCE CODE Repository. >> >> > a binary repository would imply that all the distribution agree on a > package manager, that, in my opinion is not acceptable > Not at all. The source is still availiable for any distribution which want to use another package manager. If another distribution which uses a different package manager wants to use this binary repository, then all they need to do is to write a package translator into their package manager.
Doug
