Messages in this thread | | | From | Diego Calleja <> | Subject | Re: FatELF patches... | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:40:13 +0100 |
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On Lunes 02 Noviembre 2009 03:21:47 Ryan C. Gordon escribió: > FatELF solves different problems than package managers, and in the case of > ia32 compatibility packages, it helps the package manager solve its > problems better.
Package managers can be modified to allow embeddeding a package inside of another package. That could allow shipping support for multiple architectures in a single package, and it could even do things that fatelf can't, like in the case of experimental packages that need other experimental dependencies: all of them could be packed in a single package, even with support for multiple architectures. Heck, it could even be a new kind of container that would allow packing .rpm and .debs for multiple distros together. And it wouldnt touch a single line of kernel code.
So I don't think that fatelf is solving the problems of package managers, it's quite the opposite. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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