Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at> wrote:Unlike on Gentoo, the user doesn't have to rebuild the packages, only one packager has to do it and all the users just get the packages from the packager, be it from the Fedora repository or a third-party repository. The 'p' word comes into play because proprietary licenses tend to disallow or at least limit (e.g. no way to rebuild from source because you don't have it) repackaging, which is the real cause of your problem.And there's always the nosrc games you can play like jpackage does/did to work around the distribution legalities for proprietary junk.
I'd say a more accurate description is that jpackage nosrc packages work around the peculiar packaging and PATH requirements of distributions that stubbornly refuse to standardize that crap and make it difficult for their users to install programs of their choice.
Even in a perfect world where all the rpm based distributions came to an agreement on how to package everything self-consistently,
Why just RPM based? And why hasn't even that happened in the decade+ when it has been around?
we still wouldn't have a mechanism to force proprietary vendors to use best practices... not when there are tools like checkinstall out and about to short-circuit the standard rpm packaging process for proprietary distributors to abuse.
Why is there still the need to work around peculiar distribution practices? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell gmail com