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Assuming you're right

Posted Jan 19, 2008 19:23 UTC (Sat) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157)
In reply to: Too much choice by khim
Parent article: Fedora developers on PackageKit

Wouldn't the solution to that problem be some sort of automatic package builder which takes in
one input package and produces about a hundred packages for all sorts of distributions and
versions?

I mean, I'm not sure I agree with the problem definition you've given, but it does seem that
most of the commercial software I've tried for Linux works that way rather than working with
packages... So, the solution to that  appears to be to make it easier to produce proper
packages for every distribution, rather than producing a sorta meta package... doesn't it?

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Assuming you're right

Posted Jan 24, 2008 20:44 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Creating that "automated package builder" (and then keeping it up to snuff WRT a few hundred distributions) is surely much harder than just let one guy hash it out for each package at each end...