[Fedora-olpc-list] Intro and meeting proposal

[Michael Stone]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:18:03PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:20 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
>
>> As the user who will be running Sugar:
>> # make the Activities directory to store activities
>> mkdir ~/Activities
>> cd ~/Activities
>> wget http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/bundles/other/Terminal-10.xo
>> unzip Terminal-10.xo
>> wget http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/bundles/0.81.2/Pippy-22.xo
>> unzip Pippy-22.xo
>> wget http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/bundles/Web-90.xo
>> unzip Web-90.xo
>> # Gee, wouldn't be easier if these activities were RPMs?  :)
>
>The activity bundle (.xo) is the package mechanism for Sugar.  Would it
>be preferable to leverage the .xo package management system on top of a
>few 'core' rpm packages?

"No", for many reasons. Most noticeably because the .xo package
mechanism, while barely sufficient for OLPC's needs to date, is utterly
unhelpful when dealing with the niceties of getting software to run on
lots of hardware and of keeping that software running when its
underlying libraries are upgraded.

Michael