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. > > So yes by all means do provide autopackages too. > Just don't expect them > to supersede all the rest. no need to play the popularity game here Regards Rahul Sundaram __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
