Autopackage for Ubuntu!

[Martin Alderson]

Source isn't perfect at all, unless you are a speed freak. Noone is
going to wait hours for a new program to compile and suffer a much
slower system while they are compiling. Plus, commercial software will
not be able to use it.

Linux is going to need commercial software - there is no way that OSS
can replace every tiny niche software product. Why not comprimise and
allow commercial software to blend in and give it few hassles to work
with, instead of giving ISV's loads of problems and cause
compatibility issues?

Autopackage will solve a hell of a lot of problems. I think it's
essential to get it into the 'techie' distros to give it a good going
over and beat the bugs out of it, and to encourage more packages to
get packaged with it.




On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:59:55 +1100, Shimon <shimen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thats why there is a deb-src rep with every binary rep to be able to
> rebuild it. and i have install a few binary deb from debian on SuSE
> iwith out any problems
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:38:16 +0100, Sascha Morr
> <sascha.morr at sturmkind.info> wrote:
> > Shimon schrieb:
> > > and anyone with dpkg installed can install a deb
> >
> > Yes that right! but a SuSE, Redhat, Fedora, Mandrake etc. user could not
> > use it!
> >
> > cheers
> > Sascha
> >
> 
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