Re: [gobolinux-devel] Software Installation

2008-06-29 Thread Matt Lawrence
Thank you. Your feedback has been most informative. I'll try to deal with each of the issues I (think I) understand, to the best of my knowledge. > we don't have a package database - or rather the filesystem is the database. Ah, yes. Sorry, that is what I meant by package database. I was unaware

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Software Installation

2008-06-29 Thread Isaac Dupree
Matt Lawrence wrote: > The last email was a bit long. I'll try my best to make this short ;) > > You have an excellent package database system. This the core of any > installation method. However, what is needed is a flexible binary > package format. what needs to be flexible about it? For examp

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Software Installation

2008-06-29 Thread Jonas Karlsson
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:28:03 +0200, Matt Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last email was a bit long. I'll try my best to make this short ;) > > You have an excellent package database system. This the core of any > installation method. However, what is needed is a flexible binary > package

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Software Installation

2008-06-29 Thread Matt Lawrence
The last email was a bit long. I'll try my best to make this short ;) You have an excellent package database system. This the core of any installation method. However, what is needed is a flexible binary package format. When it comes to binaries, you can't get much more flexible than binaries in