Le mardi 08 mars 2005 à 11:50 -0800, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
Hi
> A lot of people distrust autopackage because by
> letting every random
> project release its binaries the way it wants it
> sidesteps the sanity
> and consistency checks a real distro does.
not true since not a lot of people dont use
autopackage at all yet. if you mean they distrust the
distributed model of letting upstream developers
release the binaries themselves instead of relying on
the centralised and distro redundant centralised
repository model then they dont the usefulness of a
distro neutral packaging method. besides autopackage
has planned rpm integration for a future version. you
should take any valid complaints to the developers
themselves and give them a chance to explain the
logic.
I'm not here to argue the pros and cons of autopackage.
The fact is autopackage has not convinced an overwhelming majority of
Linux users yet, and therefore it would be stupid of
OpenOffice.org
(which is not in the Linux packaging market and only wants to distribute
its stuff as widely as possible) to back autopackage exclusively.
If I wanted to give partisan advice like you seem to I wouldn't have
mentioned both debs and rpms in the message you replied to.
--
Nicolas Mailhot