John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes: > Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes: > > > I've just repackaged hello using my new proposed source packaging > > scheme which does away with dpkg-source and uses just dpkg and > > standard .deb files instead. > > Oh no! This sounds suspiciously like RedHat's method! I don't like > it one bit. Here's why: > > 1) /usr has to be a read-write partition in order to compile programs. > /usr, by definition, should not have this requirement (for NFS > mounts and the like). > 2) Users would have to have explicit write permissions to /usr/src to > compile things for themselves. > 3) Unpacking to the current directory is messy. > 4) Diffs are not distributed alongside, having some potentially > nasty implications wrt our free software standards. > 5) Others cannot get our diffs or sources without installing dpkg. > > While I agree that the concept of a "make world" like FreeBSD has > certainly is enticing, and source dependencies may be a good idea, I > see no reason to ditch our nice current system for a system not > designed to hold sources. At the risk of sounding like a broken record - I would just like to state that my proposed method included alternative ways of doing everything you listed. I've tried to smother these objections with examples -- but that doesn't seem to have had any effect on people's view of it. I accept this judgement. I do plan on continuing development of the packaging format for use primarily by my own projects (not Debian packages), but probably use it with a different packaging service than dpkg. Anyways, thanks for your feedback. Cheers, - Jim
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