Re: [SLUG] Package Management

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 23:20:57 EDT


On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:34:48PM -0400, Bill Shaw wrote:

> Slightly off topic from the original post but why aren't more developers
> using something like Autopackage(http://autopackage.org/) to make software
> installation easier for users?

Because they don't know about it, and/or don't want to learn a whole new
way to do something they think they already know how to do. And as
autopackage's home page says, it's not suitable for building a distro
out of; only for add-on packages. And it doesn't (yet) integrate with
the existing package manager of a given distibution.

Paul

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