Packaging idea (Re: What next?)

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tor, 02.06.2005 kl. 08.30 skrev Mike Hearn:
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:01:14 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > Having a super-package like a .fap or a .fab would allow vendors to
> > package things for multiple distributions by simply providing multiple
> > .repo files, with yum receiving the appropriate one.
> 
> Well, distros other than Fedora don't use yum. But apart from that you
> very nearly described autopackage, except that autopackage exists and is
> being used right now:
> 
>    http://autopackage.org/gallery.html
> 

No, its more similar to my .install idea a few weeks back, which
everyone killed because "it sounds like Windows installer. GO AWAY!".
Never metion GUI ideas in such a proposal...

BTW, would this format be capable of providing multiple repos for
multiple distros/distro versions?

Kyrre