[Office Linux] Re: .debs
- From: Matthias Arndt <marndt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: officelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:22:00 +0100
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Hi folks,
Paul Cooke wrote:
|>Which one do you prefer and why?
|>I prefer Debian because of the package manager. Most of the distributions
|>out there use rpms and in my personal experience, rpms aren't very good
|>especially when it comes to handling dependencies.
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| this shouldn't matter if you are creating an OfficeLinux distro. The=20
| compilation will all be done on the same machine and there won't be
| dependency issues.
I thought exactly the same thing.
OfficeLinux should not be designed to make it possible to install 1000s
of packages. There are better suited distros for that purposes and
Debian for sure is a prime candidat.
Office Linux infact should be even installable from a single big
archive. This means an installer that does the partitioning and
postinstall stuff but basically only unpack one huge archive on the
newly created root partition.
Keep things simple - this is one of the main goals that should be part
of Office Linux.
.debs ofcourse should be the packages of choice IMHO if a conventional
distribution scheme with single packages is chosen.
But currently it is too early to decide on that. I suggest leaving that
topic for those who actually do it, may that be next summer or in 2010 :)
Or does anyone of you volunteer to do a beta for further discussions on
it? ;)
Matthias
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