Seems like an interesting concept. Don't know how it might apply to Fedora:
On 5 March 2013 17:28, Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com wrote:
Seems like an interesting concept. Don't know how it might apply to Fedora:
I guess it slots into https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2013/03/05/gnome-software-overall-plan/
Richard.
Neal Becker wrote:
This project has been ongoing for years. Nobody cared back then and nothing has really changed since then, because:
Seems like an interesting concept.
No. This completely throws away all the advantages of GNU/Linux package repositories, in particular, shared and automatically resolved dependencies. There is some support for using distribution libraries, but the more the 0install package relies on them, the less it benefits from the purported advantages of 0install (cross-distribution portability, non-root installation etc.). So in practice you'll end up with A LOT of bundled libraries.
Don't know how it might apply to Fedora
Not at all.
Kevin Kofler
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On 06/03/13 04:58, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Neal Becker wrote:
This project has been ongoing for years. Nobody cared back then and nothing has really changed since then, because:
Seems like an interesting concept.
No. This completely throws away all the advantages of GNU/Linux package repositories, in particular, shared and automatically resolved dependencies. There is some support for using distribution libraries, but the more the 0install package relies on them, the less it benefits from the purported advantages of 0install (cross-distribution portability, non-root installation etc.). So in practice you'll end up with A LOT of bundled libraries.
Don't know how it might apply to Fedora
Not at all.
0install can also resolve dependencies using 0install feeds. In practice the level of bundling is, I'd say, less than in, say, OS X.
I agree that I'd not say it's ready for packaging an entire distribution, but for specific desktop applications it might be worth a look.
You can install it by using 'yum install zeroinstall-injector', by the way
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