Edgy Third Party Package Management

[Jerry Haltom]

Of course. Nobody in their right mind would supply a version for all
100. Nobody is proposing that.

I am proposing we provide a way for ISVs to publish packages for OUR
distribution: Ubuntu. That way can be as open as possible and leave as
much room for other distros to follow as possible... but the goal is
still to have people provide packages for Ubuntu. This is a way we can
take the initiative.

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 17:25 +0200, Florian Zeitz wrote:
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> Jerry Haltom schrieb:
> > LSB defines RPM as the standard or something, doesn't it? :)
> > 
> > I think it's an okay sacrifice to make to recognize that Yes, there are
> > multiple versions of Linux, just like of Windows, and Yes, if you want
> > the best experience for users on each version, you might have to spend a
> > little time tailoring your distribution methods. That's simply the way
> > the world is right now.
> > 
> 
> You forgot something very important. Windows has only 5 versions one
> would actively want to support, because they are used. But for GNU/Linux
> there are probably over 100 distributions (even if only 5 are really
> major) and each has at least 2 versions that are actively used.
> It is not really practicable to support all this systems for a ISV IHMO.
> 
> I don't know a solution either. LSB isn't really a good solution, but
> each distribution doing their own thing isn't good either...
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