"Truls A. Tangstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it's possible to create a single RPM usable on > Fedora/SuSE/Mandrake? What about non-rpm systems like > gentoo/slackware? > > (I have no experience in packaging for non-debian systems)
They can install RPM as well. There's a package of it for Slackware, IIRC. They'll have to worry with dependencies, though. And this is one of the reasons that LSB adopted one standard... > > This is a bad approach, IMHO. It wastes a lot of resources since > > the system won't be able to share already loaded libraries. Besides > > that, the size of your programs will also get very big, making it > > harder to download... > > Yes, I know the tradeoffs, but the most important thing is having an > easy install that works for all systems. I'd avoid using something like that, unless there's no other way to accomplish something that I really need to... But you have your reasons, of course. > One problem we would have is testing and specifying versions. One > distribution might be very up to date, and provide libraries of > version which we require, others might be too old, or even too new. If > we stuff everything required into one package, all we should end up > depending on is the libc/glibc (hopefully), but then again, we'd have > to package in everything except the kitchen sink... This is true... But then, again, how big are you willing to make it? I still think that a dynamic package is better than a stactic one. But that is just my opinion and I don't really know what you have there. It might be worth... -- Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
