April foolishness from the EFF [LWN.net]

April foolishness from the EFF

Posted Apr 2, 2011 2:57 UTC (Sat) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706)
Parent article: April foolishness from the EFF

Re: The Canterbury Project - Am I smelling Parrot droppings somewhere? Beware the April Fools jokes you make - they may come back to compile you.

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Posted Apr 2, 2011 3:46 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (guest, #2582) [Link] (4 responses)

Distros have merged before, but this one would require merging package managers. (Four different ones!)

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Posted Apr 2, 2011 4:26 UTC (Sat) by furbearntrout (guest, #63263) [Link] (1 responses)

They plan to keep the syntax the same "cant update, cant install, cant remove, cant purge", etc. :D

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Posted Apr 2, 2011 13:34 UTC (Sat) by jjs (guest, #10315) [Link]

So they're copying Windows? cant do anything?

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Posted Apr 2, 2011 5:54 UTC (Sat) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706) [Link] (1 responses)

Wasn't that what Conary is/was all about?

And isn't Parrot on the road to being the One VM To Run Them All?

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Posted Apr 2, 2011 6:11 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (guest, #2582) [Link]

Parrot started off as an April Fool joke. That was the GP's point.

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Posted Apr 2, 2011 4:33 UTC (Sat) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link] (3 responses)

That would be impressive. A package manager capable of managing things like those distros yet synced. Creating the package manager is one thing, maintaining it... well.. who knows.

World domination will be several steps closer.

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Posted Apr 3, 2011 10:22 UTC (Sun) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

PackageKit already acts as a meta-package-manager on top of deb/apt, rpm/yum etc. And with distros now working on a user-friendly "app store" interface, the difference in naming convention between distros wouldn't matter too much in the future.

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Posted Apr 3, 2011 15:47 UTC (Sun) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link] (1 responses)

But who will write the package manager manager manager?

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Posted Apr 4, 2011 9:02 UTC (Mon) by MortenSickel (subscriber, #3238) [Link]

who will manage to package the package manager manager?