On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:02:25 +0200
Guido Berhoerster
I also find it unfortunate that rather than fixing the underlying problem (namely doing away the deb/rpm format which is stuck in the early 90s) it is plastered over by adding ever new layers on top of it.
Problem is that somehow we are stuck with a lot of things that were invented at the time when top system was 10 GB HD, 64 MB RAM, 300 MHz CPU, email was state of the art over the 48 Kbit/sec Internet. It is not impossible that whole effort that is now used to package stuff, would be better used to rethink whole software management architecture, and start from the moment developer writes the code. How better it would be that developer has access to one service that will offer development system with the latest stable tools and libraries for few current languages, with IDE that will force certain way to develop and prototype, code check for suspicious constructs and compatibility with few predefined software distributions, hardware architectures, and that docs are written and reviewed. But, this is opensuse-factory and unless there is a plan to create completely new way to run openSUSE Factory, we are stuck with rpm and packaging, systematical testing of random components, with hope that result will be usable. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org