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Too much choiceToo much choicePosted Jan 24, 2008 21:18 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111)In reply to: Too much choice by Tom2 Parent article: Fedora developers on PackageKit
1. Distributions fail to provide tools to let ISV's provide software that integrates easily with their distribution. For Debian-based distributions, this is simply false. The tools (dpkg, debhelper, etc.) are there, and the documentation is there. The facilities to ask questions are there. And you don't have to build separate packages for each distribution variation -- it takes real effort to build packages that install and run on stable that won't install and run on testing or unstable. Yes, it takes time to read the docs, and learn the basic packaging tools. But if you're not willing to do that, then why on earth would I trust your FooBarPkg package not to overwrite some critical library file or configuration? And if you don't want to take the time to integrate with the basic distribution (which might be a reasonable decision), then there is a long established, well-worked out scheme: unpack the tar.gz file under /opt/pkgname, and do whatever the hell you want under there. Anything in between is silly and dangerous.
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