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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaborationUntz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaborationPosted Jan 26, 2011 12:47 UTC (Wed) by jjs (guest, #10315)Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration
@rahulsundaram -
Not certain what you call "mainstream" but for Debian, if I want to install iceweasel (debian's version of Firefox) from experimental, I type in "apt-get -f install iceweasel/experimental" and the system donwloads iceweasel and all dependancies. No other upgrades. My experience with Fedora and Red Hat is the same using yum. Only Windows requires complete upgrades and restarts.
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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration Posted Jan 26, 2011 12:55 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
xulrunner is packaged separately in both Debian and Fedora and everytime the ABI changes, several other packages that depend on it has to be rebuild and updated as well and hence if you pick a newer version of Firefox from a experimental repository, you will get other updates as well. The typical solution in other platforms is bundling and while that can be done in Linux, distributions explicitly advocate against that and hence you will end up cascading updates in many cases. Besides, telling users to install from a "experimental" repository doesn't help either.
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