[Precisionix-General] Re: Package Manager
- From: Andrew Sorensen <aos@xxxxxxx>
- To: precisionix-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:37:17 -0700
Yeah, but im gonna do some more testing on dpkg speed, and if its good
for having it install everything from .deb files, also we will have a
extra packagemanager for assisting to upgrade this distribution,
possibly with qt, ncurses, and gtk frontends so anyone can use it.
We can also have instructions come up with synaptic, and adjust
gnome-app-install a bit, and possibly a QT frontend!
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 02:02 -0700, daaawg wrote:
> Since I don't have a whole lot of experience with any of the other
> packaging schemes, I am biased towards Debian's apt/dpkg/Synaptic. I
> guess I'm unclear as to why you think a custom front end is needed for
> an update manager when one exists that is already integrated with
> Synaptic on Ubuntu? The only thing I would change about the
> apt/Synaptic scheme is maybe adding some tips or instructions when
> Synaptic first opens up.
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Andrew Sorensen <aos@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> While people are deciding about names and our target audience,
> id like
> to discuss package managers too, so far I thought we should
> use dpkg +
> apt, since it seems to be friendlier to use.
> Here is a list of choices we could do...
> RPM (we would need our own front end thing however, eg yum
> zypper...)
> Dpkg (allready got frontends for, and is advanced)
> other packagermanagers including:
> pacman (from arch linux)
> portage (from gentoo)
> and maybe our own package manager (note that this would take a
> long time
> to make)
>
> I'm thinking we should use dpkg + a frontend of our own, that
> would help
> with updates and upgrading versions of software. and use
> synaptic for
> advanced users, and something like gnome-app-install for newbs
> to
> install stuff.
>
> what do you suggest?
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> --
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