Multilib Middle-Ground

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > 
> >>  I'd say a more accurate description is that jpackage nosrc packages work
> >> around the peculiar packaging and PATH requirements of distributions that
> >> stubbornly refuse to standardize that crap and make it difficult for their
> >> users to install programs of their choice.
> > 
> > Please point me to a comprehensive standardization initiative that I'm
> > not already aware of in this area.
> 
> It's just depressing that no one is interested in this sort of 
> cooperation and would prefer to force every possible application to be 
> rebuilt/repackaged and re-distributed for every version of every distro 
> to deal with the weirdness they each add.  What's the point?  Once 
> something works it should never have to be changed.  At most, new shared 
> libs should fix up anything it needs.
> 

Go take a look at the lsb-discuss mailing list and the packaging mailing
list.

-sv