> > these are not good reasons. proprietary software developers from what > ive seen make the WORST packages of anyone, even the crap you find in > /contrib directories. LSB would have been far better off defining > .tar.gz as the package format, and that proprietary crap go in its own > directory in /opt. since proprietary developers never even come close > to following any sort of filesystem standard keeping them in a self > contained mess is the only sensible thing to do. >
lsb will help change this. ISV's will conform to lsb or they will not get the cute stamp of approval companies like sooo much. > and none of this is any reason for us to abandon our packaging system, > we should provide alien as always and ignore this. > I will fight to the end to keep dpkg alive. alien IS the correct solution.
