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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 19:26 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)In reply to: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration by drag Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration
> A lot of the package and software incompatibilities are just caused by relatively insignificant implementation details. Stuff like install location or how the packages are divided up into parts or the versioning scheme used.
Insignificant? But, those are exactly the most important things that make a distribution a distribution. Without policies which force unrelated software to work together on a system you are left with the nightmare that you see in windows. The whole point of a distribution is for the package maintainers to think about these things for you. They are the added value of a distribution over simply downloading and installing upstream packages.
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