LCA: Disintermediating distributions

LCA: Disintermediating distributions

Posted Feb 6, 2008 23:33 UTC (Wed) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804)
In reply to: LCA: Disintermediating distributions by jdub
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions

And I don't think you can take distros out of the picture - as I said, "Integration is what distros do, and is driven by the overarching decisions of the distro" so you're forcing upstream to make these decisions. Ubuntu's choice of upstart is great, but OpenSolaris uses SMF - why should an upstream project have to choose one or be burdened by supporting both? Maybe D-Bus activation is a better choice for some programs, but not all.

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If your conclusion is that distributions can't be taken out of the picture, then you're not
taking part in the thought experiment. That's okay, but I'm more interested in the thought
experiment than defending the status quo (which I can do very well for myself, but find it
unchallenging and lacking in philosophical value). :-)

The "experiment" is ongoing. You can always install packages directly and not through a
distribution. 

The fact is that most of us use a proper distribution and don't build Linux from scratch. 

Binary packages provided by third parties to Linux are known to be of lower quality (to say
the least). And if you want to completely eliminate distributions, you won't really have
reference platforms, and binary packages may be even more of a pain.

... but the key to this is figuring out what could be better, rather than actively choosing
the worst outcome. :-)