[H-GEN] The Future of Packaging

[Andrew Meaden]

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How is this different from the BSD Ports tree ?

-- Andrew

>
> > Packages should be able to have multiple architectures in the one file,
for
> > instance data would be marked as noarch in the package, and libraries
and
> > executable binaries could be included in the one package for i386, i586,
and
> > ppc.
>
> I agree that this would be useful -- but you would probably only want to
> do it for a 'family' of packages (say all of x86, or 32-bit and 64-bit
> SPARC) or the code bloat would be tremendous.
>
> I think the Linux Standards Base is doing work in this area. You might
> like to trawl around the net and see if you can contribute to their work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Raymond
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during
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