Ian Collins wrote:
Stefan Teleman wrote:
[...]
involved in free software: one must be willing to take a back seat in
this show, because the show is not about particular distributions, or
individuals, but about freedom, innovation and creativity.
Don't forget how Blastwave started, it grew as a community effort and
it still is. One look at the list of maintainers shows this.
Maybe what we require from all the distributions is a common means of
identifying versions, so a package installer can search for <package
X><version Y> on the system, regardless of its origin.
I have been pointing this out for a while. Right now all the
dependencies are based
on package names which fosters duplication. Instead we need to have
dependencies
based on standard exported (by some means) module names.
This is what is done by the "Provides" and "Requires" clauses in RPM.
So in my
SuSE installation for example it does not matter where I got an RPM
package from.
It can still be used by another RPM package from another source.
Another wild idea it to use something like a stripped down configure
script to check
for dependencies. This will not require standard module naming.
Regards,
Moinak.
This would be a start in cleaning what appears to an outsider to be
the messy situation of conflicting version of the same application.
Then you wouldn't have to spend your time keeping the KDE dependencies
up to date. Freedom can also be freedom for the drudgery of
maintaining thins you require, rather than those you want to build and
grow. I know, I've been there.
I'd love to use your version of KDE, you do a superb job with KDE on
Solaris. But as I have to pay for bandwidth, I don't want yet another
set of packages to administer on my system.
Ian
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