[indiana-discuss] what's next?

[John Sonnenschein]

Is there some particular fault with SysV packages that I'm not aware of ?

The "problem" if you can call it that isn't one of package format,
it's one of management. Blastwave shows off somewhat okay that you can
have a different management framework without throwing the baby of
backwards compat. out with the bathwater.

On 6/12/07, Jeff Abbott <fdiv_bug at sniping.org> wrote:
> Geoffrey Teale wrote:
>
> > Conary, as used by rPath and Foresight linux is also pretty darn
> > interesting, and explicitly designed to handle multiple derived distros.
>
> Conary is very cool, and it's very different from other package and
> software management solutions.  That difference, however, is a
> double-edged sword in that it also brings new kinds of complexity with
> it, and requires most everyone involved learn a new set of tools and
> concepts.  Not that these costs necessarily outweigh the benefits of
> Conary -- or any other paradigm-shifting package manager -- but they do
> need to be considered.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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