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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 26, 2011 14:11 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration by xav
Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Distro package repositories are nice but cannot scale to "everything." A solution that doesn't devolve into the Windows mess is possible; I think this is a useful related discussion.


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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 27, 2011 2:28 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Part of the benefit of distribution repositories is exactly that they don't package everything: It is a way of filtering out crap.

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