RPM guidelines for vendors (was: Packaging idea)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Ven 3 juin 2005 11:46, Davide Bolcioni a écrit :

> Maybe it's just a problem of the relevant information being too
> fragmented over too many mailing lists - in my own little corner of the
> universe, this is equivalent to "there is no documentation" for the
> proprietary software developer.

It's a problem of closed vendors treating Linux as a better windows than
windows, or a better unix as solaris. Therefore they constantly bitch
about the things they're used to and are not 100% identical, and
completely ignore the genuinly different and innovative parts that evolved
in Linux. Of which packaging is on the forefront.

Vendors that genuinely believe Linux is here to stay and they need to be a
player there fare on the whole better than the others. They're approaching
the non-destructive rpm stage and will probably start releasing fine
packages in two to three years.

The others just need to be hit with the cluestick of people moving to
other products, and they'll adapt (at a time they pushed motif - most of
them have gotten over it now). All the proposed changes designed to have
the core infrastructure behave like something it isn't only slow down this
evolution while putting the burden of their mistakes on the rest of the
system.

Linux didn't get where it is now just because of the happy penguin. To
take advantage of it you need to actually look at what's in the box.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot