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Re: apt based package dist for guile?
From: |
Thamer Al-Harbash |
Subject: |
Re: apt based package dist for guile? |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:16:32 -0400 (EDT) |
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Paul Jarc wrote:
> (It happens that I also think
> that apt/rpm/etc. are trying to solve a problem that can and should be
> solved upstream by the package maintainers themselves, but that's
> anoter topic.)
Sadly this is very true. I wish I got a penny for every package
maintainer who maintained his own set of patches and never
notified the author of the fixes that were made.
> Ideally, this would be integrated with slashpackage:
> <URL:http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html>
The problem with slashpackage, although it's a great idea, is
that it ships to be used in a specific directory. Symlinking
tricks aside, there are enough people who don't want a /package
directory and that makes the adoption of slashpackage very
slow. DJB created an alternate universe as opposed to a flexible
set of tools.
I feel guile shouldn't make the mistake of trying to create an
alternate universe. GNU autoconf is a darned good tool right now
for source distribution.
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Thamer Al-Harbash
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