[indiana-discuss] what's next?

[Jeff Abbott]

Daniel Griffith wrote:
>> 3. Package system. This isn't just pkg-get or apt-get on top of #2,
>> but just as importantly, the framework and tools for community members
>> to contribute packages. This is where I expect to have the bulk of
>> community involvement. Someone finds their favorite tool isn't packaged,
>> so they package it. That's certainly how Debian/Ubuntu have worked.
> 
> That's the bit that worries me at the moment, I get the vibe that the
> people here who have used Linux have only used Debian or Redhat, these
> are distributions stuck with Package systems that were state of the
> art in the last century, but are showing their age.

I noticed in another message you wrote to the list today, you said 
roughly the same thing.  Could you possibly elaborate a bit on where rpm 
and dpkg fail, and Paludis and the other "current-generation" package 
managers succeed?  Are there any other contenders besides Paludis, in 
your opinion?  I'm not trying to be confrontational at all, but I'd love 
to hear your criticisms of the two most widely used binary packaging 
systems in the Linux world, both of which having many intelligent people 
looking after them for over a decade.

Thanks,
Jeff