Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-24 Thread Richard Hughes
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 20:02 +0200, Denis Washington wrote: > We shouldn't resignate just because nothing came out of the previous > attempts. Also, the LSB Package API is designed to require as little > adjustments as possible to installers - it's just to calls and a single > file, after all. Uses

Re: [packaging] LSB Package API

2008-06-23 Thread Richard Hughes
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 16:18 +0200, Denis Washington wrote: > The problem I currently see with single-click install is that it still > relies on a single package format (.rpm), so there would have to be > several packages of the same application again. Another particular > problem I see is security:

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-23 Thread Richard Hughes
of > easily distributable Linux software! ;) I think you are looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. For the corner cases of where this does apply (proprietary software) this is not enough of a use case to justify all the work required. From somebody that's spent t