conary - package management and maintenance?

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> [2008.06.17.1810 +0200]:
> a few weeks ago i discussed these and related questions on the
> #conary channel on freenode. the log of that conversation is now
> available from http://vcs-pkg.org/conary/

I finally had a chance to read over the discussion. I don't see in
conary the solution to what vcs-pkg is trying to solve. However, it
would be good to have people form conary take part in discussions
here.

> i am interested in a world where the difference in linux
> distributions focuses on content and quality and not on the
> packaging format. i don't want to be forced to use a certain
> distribution just because the application i need is only available
> there. every application should be available on any distribution
> and packaging an application should be like painting a bikeshed.
> ie it should not matter which format is used, because it should be
> changable easely.

This is surely noble, but I doubt it'll happen anytime soon. As you
found out in the conary discussion, stuff like maintainer scripts
and other integrations differ between packages, and there's stuff
like Debian's policy and the need to track dependencies and
version accurately.

Maybe one day it'll happen. Until then, vcs-pkg tries to take the
first step, which is to facilitate the exchange of patches and
further the interaction between maintainers of different distros.

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