Thoughts on Package Management
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| Distros have changed. In the past, they were made up of a small, tightly knit
| group collaborators working toward a common goal. With distributions today we
| now have an informal, large group of collaborators...some of which may not
| even be aware of the main goal of the distro. That informal collaborator may
| just want package foo version 2.2 included in his/her distribution so that
| he/she can use it on their desktop. How does that informal collaborator
| become empowered?
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| Imagine KDE and Gnome desktop distro developers working side by side and
| sharing fixes/patches and packages of common shared software...remember, with
| conary repositories, all changes can be seen by both development trees (KDE
| and Gnome) so the changes are automatic when put in place. Instead of having
| to push that fix to both branches of software, conary allows for fixes to be
| automatic between the two desktop development branches.
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| Work smarter, not harder. Conary can be an incredible tool that can empower
| users to contribute and merge different development trees seemlessly between
| various versions of software.
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http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/238-Thoughts-on-Package-Management.html
Related:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/26/219240
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