Moinak Ghosh wrote:
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.
OK, maybe a starting point would be to agree on a package naming
convention. I know this won't be easy, if you look back though the
archives of the SolarisX86 Yahoo list, you will see how much wrangling
went on before the CSW name was agreed for Blastwave packages. Mind
you, much of that related to the directory name.
Any suggestions an how an agreement could be reached? Could it work
with just the package name being common and still having SFW, CSW, SUNW
etc. packages? I don't see why not.
Another wild idea it to use something like a stripped down configure
script to check
for dependencies. This will not require standard module naming.
Wouldn't that require consistent library names and version numbering?
Or maybe something like what(1) could be used (is there an equivalent
for CVS files?)?
Ian
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