Why write a new package manager anyway?

Posted Jan 18, 2014 10:09 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Why write a new package manager anyway? by johannbg
Parent article: DNF and Yum in Fedora

" In anycase there is nothing preventing Fedora to switch oh wait yes there is..."

Finish your sentence if you want others to follow your train of thought.

" For quite sometime now ( couple of years ) the plumbing layer has been slowly moving to the direction of becoming whole which is an move which I see significantly strengthen the GNU/Linux ecosystem"

The plumbing layer is consolidating however your idea of consolidating packaging formats is certainly not happening. There is now ever more than before.

" I agree it's going to be interesting to see if an to what extent GNOME Software changes the landscape for distributions shipping Gnome and distributions in general and I would not be surprised if it became it's own distribution in that process as well."

It would have a software center that would act as a distribution point but there is no real reason it would morph into a Linux distribution on its own. I don't see the logical reason or the commercial incentive to do that.