On 02/17/2015 11:33 PM, John Scipione wrote:
Do you think that the issues with package management discussed in this thread are serious enough to warrant bringing Ingo and/or Oliver back for another round of Haiku, Inc. sponsored revisions (assuming they were willing to take up the mantle) before Beta1? That would most likely be the best way to get these changes made since nobody else has as much experience and understanding of package management.
I find this a really unhealthy situation for the project. The package management implementation as a whole might be somewhat complex, but it consists of several components (packagefs, package daemon and package manager support (in the package kit), dependency solver, HPKG/HPKR file format support, tools) that you don't all have to know intimately to work on a specific issue. I don't think it should take an able developer more than a few hours to get started with a certain task.
That being said, I probably won't have time to do any serious work on Haiku in the near future. And if I did, there are plenty of tasks which IMO have a higher priority than shuffling the directory layout. [1]
CU, Ingo [1] https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagement/TODO
