Some unreliable predictions for 2015

Posted Jan 12, 2015 20:23 UTC (Mon) by HIGHGuY (subscriber, #62277)
In reply to: Some unreliable predictions for 2015 by dlang
Parent article: Some unreliable predictions for 2015

Actually, that's not what I'm saying in my comment.
I'm saying that we might see the redundant work going away if a good deployment solution is found. I don't think we'll see packaging go away, I think we'll see less of it because there's no 30 flavors of distro each using their own packaging system.

And going one step further, I think it could make sense to let a package 'container' be updated with ABI-stable backports and fixes. i.e. You first make a container with app X and lib Y and Z, then provide stable updates to each through incremental regular intra-container updates that keep ABI stable. Packaging is then no longer a client-side app, but just a means of updating an app-container server-side and offering these incremental updates to us, users.

Or, maybe I'm just dreaming and this will all fade away by 2016 ;)

Some unreliable predictions for 2015

Posted Jan 13, 2015 0:56 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

I don't think that there are 30 different packaging systems in use. The difference between distros is less in the packaging system used and more in the choices related to how each package is created.

Tools like alien can mechanically convert packages from one packaging system to with pretty good reliability, but that makes no impact on the work the different distros do.