Edgy Third Party Package Management

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:20:42AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> 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.

The trouble with this approach is that LSB as it stands doesn't meet the
needs of ISVs, and it's not clear that any standardization approach will do
so in the near future.

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 - mdz