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On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:58:32 -0400, Andy Hanton wrote:
They aren't the only ones working on this stuff. The
zero-install
project (
http://zero-install.sf.net/) seems to be trying for a more
interesting solution. They actually link software to libraries using a
caching http filesystem. For example, an application that needs gtk2
would link to /uri/0install/www.gtk.org/gtk2/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.
Treat me like a dumb user, please. In which way is that better than
the current dependency on libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0? What problems is it
supposed to fix?
So it
doesn't need the funny hacks autopackage uses to detect what the user
has installed.
$ rpm --redhatprovides libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
gtk2-2.2.1-4
The user can double click the application and all the
dependencies are downloaded automatically and doing so never breaks
anything else on the system.
We do have that feature already, don't we?
- --
Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore.
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