[indiana-discuss] what's next?

[Glenn Lagasse]

* Simon Phipps (webmink at sun.com) wrote:
> 
> 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 :-)

Something like alien would seem to be a good starting point.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/

Cheers,

Glenn