Edgy Third Party Package Management

[Scott Dier]

Jerry Haltom wrote:
> 4. Existing systems which attempt to bridge all distributions
> (AutoPackage) suck for one reason or another.

I don't see why someone like say, mathworks or wolfram, would implement 
a Ubuntu package but not instead just support lsb.  They do neither at 
this point, as far as I can remember -- they instead usually either 
statically link everything or compile against 2-3 year old targets for 
libc and include their own copies of libraries or statically link them 
if needed.

lsb isn't the prettiest way of dealing with it, but most isv's have 
better things to do than mess with support fedora/redhat/ubuntu/suse/etc 
all at once.

Thanks,
-- 
Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>