On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I meant to say is that all the good things we get from a bespoke > packaging format, we can get from rpm with a few conventions as to the > directories where things land.
A couple of additional notes from a private subthread... ...there are a few ways to use rpm/yum for unprivileged users (alternative DB, fakeroot, relocatable pkgs...), and I think we can use them for this. In fact, we could even build a simplistic rpm installer in python that handles a subset of what rpm does (hopefully this is not needed, it'd detract from the idea quite a bit) One valid criticism to using rpm - from a Sugar perspective - is that Sugar won't want to become tied to Fedora/RH. There's a case for thinking through if we can actually use rpm the way we want on Debian and/or apt on Fedora. Both rpm and apt are available in old/buggy versions in the "other" family of distros. Using rpm or apt Sugar would getting a bit further away from Windows (does cygwin carry either?) - a bit less so on OSX (where the fink toolchain will probably work alright, specially with translation pkgs, which are by definition "noarch"). cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar