Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Tim Schmidt]

Sounds to me like you know exactly what's needed to get all the
distributions (yes...  ALL of them -- Gentoo and LFS included!) to
start using the same package format.  Get to work so the rest of us
idiots can start to benefit from your master-package system.  I want
to install all those wonderful commercial Linux games after all.

--tim

> No. RedHat or Fedora does not use apt-get by default. They use yum.
> apt-get is optional and I believe is going to be taken out in the
> future.
> 
> The problem is that you'd have to have a .deb for debian based systems
> AND a .rpm for the others. This is nowhere near acceptable in a world
> where games are 4GB+ and need all content copied accross.
> 
> Therefore, you'd have to write your own propietary installation script
> and copy the files 'the old fashioned way' with an off the shelf
> installer tool.
> 
> This would really require an autorun to make it easier.
> 
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:38:43 -0600, Jerry Haltom
> <jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com> wrote:
> > Maybe Redhat should use apt-get... oh wait, they do.
> >
> > Maybe SuSE should use apt-get?
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 02:53 +0000, Martin Alderson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:38:14 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:14:10PM +0000, Martin Alderson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:43:02 +0100, Martin Pitt
> > > > > <martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > > > > This is the fault of the game vendor. If they provide an apt source,
> > > > > > then package installation can't be easier.
> > > > >
> > > > > WTF? Sorry, but an apt source is incredibly difficult. How does this
> > > > > work?
> > > >
> > > > Click on a link in your web browser, an application launches with
> > > > information about the source and asks you whether you want to add it.
> > > Ok, that sounds acceptable, but it's highly unlikley apt-get would
> > > become the standard for this, especially since Fedora + RedHat uses
> > > yum, and I'm not sure what SuSE/NLD use... we need something much more
> > > cross-distro than this.
> > >
> > --
> > Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>
> > Feedback Plus, Inc.
> >
> >
> 
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