[install-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Brief (blogged) thoughts on packaging

[Danek Duvall]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:51:13AM +0100, a b wrote:

> On packaging systems / formats that already support hierarchichal bundling
> of software, there is a notion of a
> 
> depot
>   bundle
>     product
>       subproduct
>          fileset

It seems awfully complicated to give each level of the heirarchy a
different name, and somewhat arbitrary to fix the heirarchy at five levels
(though I guess only three are required).  Have those choices proven really
natural in practice?  It also seems strange that that "[c]ustomer creation
of bundles is not supported".  Why would that not be a useful operation for
a customer or ISV?

We'll have the concept of the depot (in fact, our server is currently called
pkg.depotd, though we've been calling the depot the repository, a la
conary), and the fileset (package), but filesets will be hierarchical.

Danek