On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > Please point me to a comprehensive standardization initiative that I'm > > not already aware of in this area. > > It's just depressing that no one is interested in this sort of > cooperation and would prefer to force every possible application to be > rebuilt/repackaged and re-distributed for every version of every distro > to deal with the weirdness they each add. What's the point? Once > something works it should never have to be changed. At most, new shared > libs should fix up anything it needs. > Go take a look at the lsb-discuss mailing list and the packaging mailing list. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
