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No, it's not a solved problem since PPAs are Ubuntu specific both in the sense that nobody else is using them and in the sense that if someone makes a PPA that

by 4ad 14y ago

No, it's not a solved problem since PPAs are Ubuntu specific both in the sense that nobody else is using them and in the sense that if someone makes a PPA that package depends on a specific Ubuntu release and won't work on any distribution. There needs to be a way for developers to provide distribution agnostic binaries. Distros can choose to provide whatever package management tools that consume the developer-produced raw data.

Nursie 14y ago
"PPAs are Ubuntu specific both in the sense that nobody else is using them and in the sense that if someone makes a PPA that package depends on a specific Ubuntu release and won't work on any distribution." Well, you can use them on debian, other distros (Fedora etc) have a different model with equivalents. "There needs to be a way for developers to provide distribution agnostic binaries." Why? With source the distro maintainers can choose to build it as they like, apply patches if they feel the need, tweak it to run against the lib versions they have decided on etc etc. This is what makes linux distros great, that the binaries are built with and as part of the system. "Distros can choose to provide whatever package management tools that consume the developer-produced raw data." Big of you to allow them that freedom...
runeks 14y ago
> There needs to be a way for developers to provide distribution agnostic binaries. Distros can choose to provide whatever package management tools that consume the developer-produced raw data. What prevents developers from providing statically linked binaries in PPAs right now?
- Nursie 14y ago
  Nothing at all. I don't think there's really a developer appetite for doing this stuff. There is for commercial server software, but then folks working on that tend to target ultra-stable platforms.

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No, it's not a solved problem since PPAs are Ubuntu specific both in the sense that nobody else is using them and in the sense that if someone makes a PPA that

by 4ad 14y ago

Nursie 14y ago
"PPAs are Ubuntu specific both in the sense that nobody else is using them and in the sense that if someone makes a PPA that package depends on a specific Ubuntu release and won't work on any distribution." Well, you can use them on debian, other distros (Fedora etc) have a different model with equivalents. "There needs to be a way for developers to provide distribution agnostic binaries." Why? With source the distro maintainers can choose to build it as they like, apply patches if they feel the need, tweak it to run against the lib versions they have decided on etc etc. This is what makes linux distros great, that the binaries are built with and as part of the system. "Distros can choose to provide whatever package management tools that consume the developer-produced raw data." Big of you to allow them that freedom...
runeks 14y ago
> There needs to be a way for developers to provide distribution agnostic binaries. Distros can choose to provide whatever package management tools that consume the developer-produced raw data. What prevents developers from providing statically linked binaries in PPAs right now?
- Nursie 14y ago
  Nothing at all. I don't think there's really a developer appetite for doing this stuff. There is for commercial server software, but then folks working on that tend to target ultra-stable platforms.