...or too few resources?

...or too few resources?

Posted Jan 19, 2008 16:02 UTC (Sat) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: ...or too few resources? by jd
Parent article: Fedora developers on PackageKit

This is exactly the same discussion as the one on Stable API on the Linux kernel.

I've messed around with a few different distributions, and the differences between distributions are large, and if you look not only at ABI differences but also at packaging guidelines (what goes into the main package, what goes into a -devel package, what are the package naming guidelines, ...) you get into a mess with dependencies very fast. It was called "RPM hell" in large part because an RPM for one distribution or version just didn't fit into the next one (there was no ".deb hell" because there was just one collection of those around).

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now there is one. Debian and Ubuntu have diverged their repositories far enough so that it's
not easy to install .debs between them (however it's still not hard to rebuild them from the
source). Earlier, the same could be said about Debian vs Stormix. Overall, as the policy
becomes less strict and less centralized, the hell ensues.