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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 27, 2011 2:17 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration by michaeljt Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration
Bundles are either massive duplication (and innumerable opportunities for security (and other) bugs that get never fixed) or require something like the current dependency handling system, but on weapons-grade steroids (you'd have to track not only one set of dependencies, but potentially dependencies for each single package in the system separately). I just don't see anything but downsides. Yes, the package database is a single point of failure for a Linux distribution. Yes, in the 15 or so years of Red Hat (and derivatives) use I did have my half dozen problems with broken RPM databases, but AFAIR just once there was no reasonable way to fix it without a full reinstall (and that was due to a disk problem, that thrashed the system regardless). Sure, fixing the database wasn't trivial; but the technology used has gotten way better over time, the last thrashed RPM database was quite some time back.
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