A summary of the LSB meeting

KDE hacker Aaron Seigo was at the recent Linux Standard Base meeting in Boston; he has written up and posted a summary of what happened there. "There was discussion of a common packaging API for "installanywhere"/"installshield" type apps to use. At first there was pushback from distros but by the end after open and frank discussion and Ian's graceful handling of things there seemed to be consensus that this was a possibility indeed. Still a long ways to go on it, but something ISVs are pushing for and something that, with enough flexibility, the OSVs agree they can probably provide. This is not to be a replacement for .deb or .rpm or apt-get/yum/etc but a way for OSVs to provide simple hooks to register files with the package management system in an OS-neutral way."

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