[OM Cooker] Multi-distro, universal packages
Guilherme M.S.
guimarcalsilva at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 04:06:33 EDT 2016
Thanks everybody for answering me. I think that would be cool to
support at least one of those projects, but i'm not saying for the
whole system, maybe only as a alternative to RPM. My complaints about
RPM and how those projects could help are the following:
I probably can't install a RPM file made for Mageia or RedHat on
OpenMandriva, so a lot of work and manpower that could be redirected
to OpenMandriva's development is wasted creating packages for every
program and dependencies, also, moving the work from distro's
developers to program's developers would make updates easier, because
the only work for updating a program would be fetching the updated
packages from the internet. As far as I know, Flatpak detects when a
program is using a library that is already present in the system and
delete the duplicates, thus requiring less space, and both projects
run programs through a sandbox, increasing security, specially when
using Mir or Wayland.
Once again, thanks everybody and I wish the best for you! :)
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