Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Me wrote:
> I totally agree with you. There's a LOT more to cross distro
> compatibility than the package format and manager! A whole heck of a
> lot!!
>
> What would be cool would be if someone came up with a project
> specifically targetted at this much larger problem: cross-distro
> compatibility! Actually, this should have been started years ago, but
> never mind.
>
> I hereby put out a call for an initiative to do this. To begin to put
> flesh on this, I suggest the following draft opening to a mission
> statement for this effort:
>
> The goal is to develop and promote a set of standards
> that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions
> and enable software applications to run on any compliant
> Linux system.
>
> Anyone interested? Mariusz?
This is the best troll I've seen in a while. Thanks. :)
Jeffrey.
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