Autopackage for Ubuntu!

[Martin Alderson]

Yea, that's what I meant.

Well I see Mike has killed my argument :). Hopefully we'll get
autopackage widely deployed not too far in the future, though.


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:40:21 -0500, CowPie <dlist at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> Konstantin Ryabitsev Wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:49:07 +0000, Martin Alderson
> > <martinalderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Any plans to use autopackage (autopackage.org) which would solve
> > most,
> > > if not all, Linux install problems (distro-neutral packages,
> > automatic
> > > dependancy resolution with no central dependancy database, iirc,
> > > bootiful GUI for both GTK and QT, etc etc).
> >
> > Have you even read the FAQ?
> > http://autopackage.org/faq.html
> >
> > Q: Can I use autopackage for my new distro?
> > A: No, see the question below for more details, but essentially
> > autopackage is not a tool for building distributions. It's a tool for
> > 3rd party software developers to produce packages for their website
> > that any Linux user can use.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Konstantin Ryabitsev
> > Zlotniks, INC
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> He could mean providing autopackage-base by default, so we CAN go to
> other websites to download .packages.
> 
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