On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, I''m not sure I agree that anything like this is needed. > > We had hashed this out in Berlin, and Ian's mailing list message > summarized some of the reasons for this. > > Do you have any specific questions or objections about the need for it?
My main objection is that plain old packages rule, and vendor-supplied installers suck. Rather than inventing something new to make vendor-supplied installers integrate better into packaging systems, we should make the existing packaging systems work better for vendors. We have some experience packaging Picasa and Google Desktop for Linux. We build it once, and then package it as both .deb and .rpm. Works great. The only annoying part is that there's no easy way to point our users at the right package to install. That's a real problem, but I expect that a combination of the Suse Metapackage idea plus PackageKit will take care of it. Other than that, the existing packaging systems are up to the task, and are far better than the crufty installers provided by vendors. - Dan http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PackageKit http://en.opensuse.org/Standards/One_Click_Install _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint