Re: Packaging formats

[bighead <bighead crosswinds net>]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Drazen Kacar wrote:

> bighead wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Sarel J. Botha wrote:
> 
> > > My proposal:
> > > A packaging system designed to be 100% rpm, deb and
> > > anything-else-compatible. In other words I compile my program once and it
> 
> All Unix variants which claim to be SYSV compatible have to implement
> SYSV packaging utilities. Most of the commercial variants are in this
> category (BSDI might not be, since it's BSD, after all). I don't know
> what free BSD variants use, but I think they have their methods.
> 
> > I think thats why we have the true universal packaging format
> >
> > "foo.tar.gz"
> 
> It's a problem for big things, like Gnome. Very big problem. Nobody
> wants to compile from tarballs.
> 
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Hey! Who said tarballs have to distribute source code. Then can be used
for only binaries and a Makefile for only installing binaries.

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