Re: package managemt symlink

[Dan Čermák]

Vít Ondruch <vondruch(a)redhat.com&gt; writes:

>  Dne 05. 02. 19 v 11:09 Dan Čermák napsal(a):
> > Hi Sören,
> >
> > while I don't want to discourage you in your work, symlinking the
> > package manager to /usr/bin/nimue isn't going to solve a more
> > fundamental issue: every distro has a different naming scheme for
> > packages. Sure, the "big" programs (Firefox for instance) have usually
> > the name you'd expect, but with libraries this won't help at all.
> >
> > Practical example: I want to install the development version of
> > expat:
> > Fedora & CentOS: expat-devel
> > Debian & Ubuntu: libexpat1-dev
> > OpenSUSE: libexpat-devel
> > Arch: expat
> > Alpine: expat-dev
> >
> > Solving this is next to impossible, unless you want to enumerate
> > **every** single package of **every** supported distro manually.
>
>
>  Surprisingly, I believe that release-monitoring.org could help with
>  this, since there is upstream project mapping vs the distribution name
>  mapping. IDK if there could be better source for this. 
Sure, if everyone would participate it could solve this issue. But
reusing my above example expat:
https://release-monitoring.org/project/770/
Unfortunately only Alpine, Arch and Fedora are listed.

And it looks like release-monitoring.org doesn't track the name of the
libraries (which are probably subpackages).

Nevertheless, release-monitoring.org could solve this issue.

>
>
> Vít
>
>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> Valor Naram <valinora(a)gmx.net&gt; writes:
>>
>>> Dear Fedora mailing list community,
>>>
>>> I am Sören alias Valor Naram and I founded the project
"goeasyLinux". I will help to make linux more user friendly.
>>>
>>> A short introduction to "goeasyLinux" can be found
at https://github.com/ValorNaram/goeasylinux/blob/master/README.md
>>>
>>> The specification I wrote in order to make a cross platform symlink to
package management
systems: https://github.com/ValorNaram/goeasylinux/blob/master/package%20...
>>>
>>> With your help I want to make package installing/removing equal on all linux
systems without disturbing the diversity we have across linux distributions. In order to
do that we need just a symlink, no replacement of existing software.
>>>
>>> I think you did something similar in the past.
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>>
>>> Sören alias Valor Naram
>>>
>>>
>>>
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