[gobolinux-devel] Software Installation

[Michael Homer]

On Friday 27 June 2008 14:25:42 Matt Lawrence wrote:
> Hi. I would first of all like to congratulate all of you on not just
> being "yet another Linux distro". You guys have contributed so much
> more than the vast majority of distributions out there and I wish you
> and your distribution well.
>
> For your benefit, I would like to draw your attention to another
> project, namely Zero Install. 
This suggestion comes up every so often, and I don't think it's going to go 
anywhere this time either. You can use Zero Install on GoboLinux, of course, 
and I think some people do.
> This project has the ability to automatically fetch and install 
dependencies. It also has other requirements for its binaries that match your
> requirements, such as the binary must be portable
This is *not* a requirement, and in general packages will not work if you move 
them elsewhere. Sometimes they do, but it's not planned that way.

All in all, there just isn't a lot of advantage to moving to a different 
packaging system. There could be slightly more software available, but it 
would require maintaining two systems in parallel and reformulating all of 
the tools. And we generally shy away from encouraging people to install from 
arbitrary locations on the internet. The package store will expand once the 
CompileFarm work on having the recipe tree be built automatically comes 
online.
-Michael
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