On Saturday 29 October 2005 20:21, Janne Karhunen wrote: > G'd day everyone, > > I have to say that after years of happily using RPM I'm little by > little getting tired of it. Sooner or later this thing needs to be > given some new thinking.
<snip> You're talking about a problem that doesn't really exist. It's not so hard to create packages that work across distributions. mozilla, openoffice and opera are already doing it. As far as I know there is only one version of quake, unreal tournament, doom3 etc. and they work well on all distributions So yes, it is very possible to create packages that don't give anyone a headache There are a few areas where people seem to cry a lot. The main one seems to be perl programs, where people write things that depend on obscure things out of the nether regions of CPAN that no one has ever packaged. Or they write to an older version of a module where the API has changed. This will always be a problem on any platform, and the solution is that if they rely on something obscure, they should include it in the package. Are there other areas of concern? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
