0install

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

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On 06/03/13 04:58, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>> http://0install.net/
> 
> This project has been ongoing for years. Nobody cared back then and
> nothing has really changed since then, because:
> 
>> Seems like an interesting concept.
> 
> No. This completely throws away all the advantages of GNU/Linux
> package repositories, in particular, shared and automatically
> resolved dependencies. There is some support for using distribution
> libraries, but the more the 0install package relies on them, the
> less it benefits from the purported advantages of 0install
> (cross-distribution portability, non-root installation etc.). So in
> practice you'll end up with A LOT of bundled libraries.
> 
>> Don't know how it might apply to Fedora
> 
> Not at all.
> 
0install can also resolve dependencies using 0install feeds. In
practice the level of bundling is, I'd say, less than in, say, OS X.

I agree that I'd not say it's ready for packaging an entire
distribution, but for specific desktop applications it might be worth
a look.

You can install it by using 'yum install zeroinstall-injector', by the way

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