Blog post about package management (aimed at fedora)

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Jul 27 14:00:08 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 09:53 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Frankly, I don't care as much about it working with .deb, or Solaris
> pkgadd, or whatever. Others may differ, but I wonder if the effort required
> to coerce all of them to a common API would a) be sanely possible b)
> leave you with enough of a common API to do anything useful.

The big thing about this is to get package management tools out of the
distro tools ghetto and into shared upstream territory.




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