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Pretty much every distro ever already does this. At the same time, practically every repository is already a web page with packages. Take Ubuntu and Debian for
by oneplane 7y ago
Pretty much every distro ever already does this. At the same time, practically every repository is already a web page with packages.
Take Ubuntu and Debian for example; if you download a .deb file you can install it from the GUI and CLI as-is.
An example with pictures from a random Google result: https://itsfoss.com/install-deb-files-ubuntu/ https://itsfoss.com/install-deb-files-ubuntu/
- stonogo 7y agoThere is also checkinstall, which replaces the 'make install' step in building from source and outputs a native package.
- lmz 7y agoAnd the problem with this approach is of course the dependency management. Just because you have the file for package X doesn't mean it will work if you're missing some of its dependencies. And those dependencies have dependencies etc. Which is why now we use e.g. yum and apt to install stuff, and not rpm and dpkg directly.