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There's Portage for Gentoo, which is a nice efficient system, and there's also that shitty CNR thing which Linspire use to dumb-down APT (for money!!) and also Autopackage (distro neutral.) Oh, and there's all those wierd distros which have /Programs/ProgramName filesystem structures - they have their own packaging systems as well. The only one of these I use is Autopackage, though I prefer to use apt for installing software if it's available in Deb. On 09/07/05, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Neil Williams wrote: > > > > How many people here use a non-.deb AND non-.rpm package manager for their > > everyday GNU/Linux systems? > > Deb's everywhere these days - just a few more Redhat boxes to retire. > > > Does each one have their network of maintainers who package tarballs into > > their own package format? > > As far as I know many GNU projects just ship tar.gz and leave it to > package maintainers. > > There are some other weird formats I use occaisonally but these are > usually for dedicated distros - think wireless devices etc. > > > Who uses a non-86 platform? (apart from MacOSX). > > Yeap. Please always cope with other number representations. > > Learn from DJBs mistakes pointers may always be integers, but not all > integers are suitable for pointers ;) > > > How pure does an autofoo config need to be to run on every GNU system? Is > > 'sed' always around? Perl? bash may not be, as long as it's fairly simple > > test stuff, shouldn't most shells work? > > Nope - there are a lot of shells not everything has all of them. > > I think where you can be explicit in the autoconf stuff you should be, > as this not only saves other people time, it is declaring (at least > informally) what you require. This helps packagers. > > Often what you require is both "more specific" thus more widely > available than you think. Such as GNU chess requires a "Posix compatible > thread library" now (must sort the bugs), but there are "posix like" > thread library implementations that don't support the subtler aspects of > threading, but are perfectly adequate to run GNU chess. > > > Anyone ever built a package for Cygwin? What does that require? > > If it works under Redhat, the Cygwin people will cope, but it may run > dog slow. > > http://cygwin.com/setup.html > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCz5OpGFXfHI9FVgYRAhYSAKDUMrwbb9EdAfzNu+oG4jt8WKt2QwCg0DO4 > nCXjVr0bvgq0/LsKbwp5akU= > =tTXh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- ~ Ben Goodger (no, NOT the Firefox developer) ~ Please remember to FLOSS daily. ~ www.getfirefox.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html