[indiana-discuss] what's next?

[Geoffrey Teale]

On 12/06/07, Daniel Griffith <mechadaniel at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.



Yes.  I point a keep making :-)    If you want the community to contribute
packages outside the core distro you need something that's easy to learn but
not too limiting.

If you look beyond the apt/deb and RPM duopoly you find some more
interesting solutions.

Arch Build System / Pacman (as used in Arch Linux and Frugal Linux) is the
nicest to work with I've ever used (and I've used RPM and apt/deb in a
professional capacity).   You can find it here:
http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/

It's easy enough that a community far smaller than the Ubuntu, Debian or Red
Hat or SuSE communities can make a user contribution repository like this:
http://aur.archlinux.org/

That's a big seller for me.

Conary, as used by rPath and Foresight linux is also pretty darn
interesting, and explicitly designed to handle multiple derived distros.

I don't suggest that Indiana just picks these things up as is, but locking
beyond current Solaris, Ubuntu and Red Hat package management is probably
essential if you want to make a best of breed solution.

--
Geoff Teale
<tealeg at member.fsf.org>
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