From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thamer Al-Harbash Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: apt based package dist for guile? Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:16:32 -0400 (EDT) Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87he51mx3y.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87y8y9yfp2.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> <20030805134523.GB1785@linger.twisted-muse.org> <20030805201840.GA10216@www> <87ispbsudg.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1060123143 21023 80.91.224.253 (5 Aug 2003 22:39:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:39:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, rm@fabula.de, Nic Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 06 00:39:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19kASf-0001Fu-01 for ; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:39:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19kAOC-0002Cd-Jl for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19kANh-0002CE-8e for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19kANB-00020S-Cf for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.254.175.50] (helo=helena.whitefang.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 19kA6J-0004ZS-6g for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:16:15 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 50370 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2003 22:16:33 -0000 Original-Received: from helena.whitefang.com (216.254.175.50) by 0 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2003 22:16:33 -0000 X-X-Sender: shadows@helena.whitefang.com Original-To: Paul Jarc In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:2160 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:2160 On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Paul Jarc wrote: > (It happens that I also think > that apt/rpm/etc. are trying to solve a problem that can and should be > solved upstream by the package maintainers themselves, but that's > anoter topic.) Sadly this is very true. I wish I got a penny for every package maintainer who maintained his own set of patches and never notified the author of the fixes that were made. > Ideally, this would be integrated with slashpackage: > The problem with slashpackage, although it's a great idea, is that it ships to be used in a specific directory. Symlinking tricks aside, there are enough people who don't want a /package directory and that makes the adoption of slashpackage very slow. DJB created an alternate universe as opposed to a flexible set of tools. I feel guile shouldn't make the mistake of trying to create an alternate universe. GNU autoconf is a darned good tool right now for source distribution. -- Thamer Al-Harbash GPG Key fingerprint: D7F3 1E3B F329 8DD5 FAE3 03B1 A663 E359 D686 AA1F "to understand recursion first one must understand recursion" _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user