[indiana-discuss] what's next?

[Simon Phipps]

On Jun 12, 2007, at 18:47, Jeff Abbott wrote:

> Simon Phipps wrote:
>
>> Would Conary be sufficiently rich to be able to feed automated  
>> generation of packages for other package management systems, so  
>> that other distributions using different package management  
>> solutions could auto-generate packages from the information used  
>> by Conary? In my naivety it seems to me that the package  
>> management system for a "reference" distribution ought to have  
>> this attribute.
>
> I don't know since I've never used Conary, but I don't believe it  
> does that.  What you bring up is an interesting idea, though, and  
> not one that *I've* seen in any existing package management  
> solutions.  In fact, I can't even come up with a good way to  
> describe this; it'd be almost a meta-package-manager, but it would  
> be able to produce packages that were usable by itself, in addition  
> to the other output formats it could produce.  Or am I  
> misunderstanding you?

No, that's exactly it, although as Moinak says it's probably a dream :-)

S.