[CoLoCo] Standardized Repositories

[David Overcash]

Careful..  if you talk about standardization too much the F/OSS zealots will
yell at you for not wanting to provide choices...  RMS stuff, ya know  : )

But I totally agree!

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I saw an article some time ago that basically pointed out that the
> number one thing that was really holding Linux back from becoming fully
> mainstream was a lock of Standardization in Linux when it comes to
> package management.  I responded with saying that Windows had no package
> management system at all, and that uninstall programs often leave many
> thing behind including registry keys, folders, and .DLL files which only
> caught Windows to slow down, but the argument had a good point.  Linux
> needs a Standardized system of Package Management across all
> distributions.  Ubuntu and many others use the Debian package managment
> system, Red Hat and distros based on it use RPMs, and so on and so
> forth.  If you want to install an app on Ubuntu that's in an RPM you
> can't use Aptitude and need a separate piece of software to do the
> install.  This starts to make Linux more like Windows with every piece
> of software using different types of installers.  There should be a
> universally accepted package management system adopted by all distros
> regardless if they are Debian based, Red Hat based or Slackware based
> instead of all of these different competing package management formats.
> It starts to get as confusing as the different versions of Windows Vista
> for your Average Joe computer user.  Thus, the argument is in a way
> correct, there are too many different competing types of distros out
> there and a single package management format must be chosen if Linux is
> going to make further headway.
>
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