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Too much choiceToo much choicePosted Jan 21, 2008 12:14 UTC (Mon) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)In reply to: Too much choice by robilad Parent article: Fedora developers on PackageKit
Not sure if this is such a big deal, Things like Java and acrobat have been distributed as fancy tarballs for ages. All ISVs need to do is put up a tarball with a description of system requirements and people will make installers for various systems for you, no charge. If you as ISV stick to using LSB libc and other standard libraries you really shouldn't have any problems....
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Too much choice Posted Jan 21, 2008 12:59 UTC (Mon) by robilad (guest, #27163) [Link] Java has been an amusingly painful story, if you look at the trouble the debian/jpackage/gentoo folks have been going through to make the binary blobs fit into the distributions, from in-the-middle-of-the-night updates to the tarballs by the vendors without a version change breaking md5 sums all over the place, to the inability to fetch the tarballs directly legally without interacting with a licensing mechanism, to breakage due to binary ABI changes , and a whole lot of other fun war stories the bug trackers and change logs can tell.
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