Package Manager

Package Manager

Posted Jul 5, 2006 20:24 UTC (Wed) by warmcat1 (guest, #31975)
In reply to: Package Manager by brugolsky
Parent article: Interview: Jim Gettys (Part II)

Thanks for the information... there's a link in the interview to this overview of Conary:

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/30/210216

I don't know that the existing packaging technologies have generally "outlived their usefulness", because for my little set of usage cases (including embedded) RPM is really nice. On a RHEL sort of view I can see that some of the Conary things would be interesting, and in turn that makes it interesting for Fedora, so maybe it will come to pass.

For the OLPC, if the sticking point with having a packaging system at all is the storage footprint, it seems from the descriptions of Conary that problem is getting bigger not smaller in that direction. So it continues to seem to me RPM or some RPM-lite would be a good thing there.

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