On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 16:13 +0100, Mathrick wrote: > Dnia 31-10-2004, nie o godzinie 01:12 +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín > napisał(a): > > > Does rhythmbox have any plans for using autopackage once it reaches > > > 1.0 status. I use Mandrake 10.1 and have many dependency problems > > > that using autopackage.org would solve. > > > > I don't see what gives you autopackage that .rpm or .deb does not solves > > at the moment. It sounds like the same thing... or perhaps worst, the > > package dependencies are not bad, they are there so you can be sure that > > an application will work always, if you try to remove a needed library, > > the system will warn you that there are installed an application that > > needs that library. > > Umm, are you sure you're talking about autopackage here? Autpackage will > use native package manager if available, and fallback only for deps not > found on target platform. I don't see the point then... If you package all dependencies you will solve the problem not for rhythmbox but for any other piece of software out there... > > > I can only imagine your problem if you are trying to install a binary > > from Redhat into Mandrake or things like that. If that's the case... > > sorry, but I don't see autopackage as the solution. > > Not really, it happens every time your target distro lacks particular > dependency packaged. Then, perhaps you should change/upgrade your distro if you want latest releases... > > > I would be good to > > see how autopackage handles the installation of a GNOME 2.8 application > > in a GNOME <= 2.6 environment forgetting the dependencies... > > At this stage of development, I think it's supposed to behave good in > this situation, although that would probably mean installing whole 2.8 > platform... Then I don't see the point, sorry. This discussion is going offtopic for rhythmbox's mailing list (my fault, sorry), and I'm not the kind of people than autopackage has as target so I don't think I will ever use it but if you want to continue this conversation, just send me a private mail. Cheers. > > Cheers, > Maciej > -- Carlos Perelló Marín Ubuntu Warty (PowerPC) => http://www.ubuntulinux.org Linux Registered User #121232 mailto:carlos pemas net || mailto:carlos gnome org http://carlos.pemas.net Valencia - Spain
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