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<B>Michael Scherer</B>
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<PRE>Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 01:53 +1100, Doug Laidlaw a écrit :
><i> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:35:12 am André Machado wrote:
</I>><i> > We all know that, nowadays, Ubuntu is the distribution most widely used and
</I>><i> > known worldwide. Many users are afraid to try other distros because they
</I>><i> > are accustomed to Ubuntu and many remasters are Ubuntu or Debian based.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > We also know that RPM-based distros are not anything DEB-based distros and
</I>><i> > often are more stable and faster. URPMI is incomparably superior to
</I>><i> > apt-get.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > The four major community-driven RPM-based distros nowadays are: Mageia,
</I>><i> > OpenSuse, Fedora and PCLinuxOS.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > All these distros can work together to promote the use of RPM distros and
</I>><i> > help in their own developments.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Even though the development team mageia is busy with the roadmap of
</I>><i> > development, I would propose the creation of...
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > T H E [ R E D ] A L L I A N C E
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > ... which would be a global network where developers and users of these
</I>><i> > distributions could exchange knowledge and information and share resources
</I>><i> > to assist in developing mutual their distros.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Today we know that a RPM developed for OpenSuse may not work properly in
</I>><i> > Fedora. With the Red Alliance, we could create a common development basis,
</I>><i> > through which could enhance the compatibility and interoperability of
</I>><i> > programs developed for these distros with the establishment of common
</I>><i> > guidelines and further increase market share and convince users that they
</I>><i> > will feel at home.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > The goal is not to merge all the distros, but work together. The idea
</I>><i> > should be further developed, but this seems an appropriate way.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Standardisation is a good thing. I have an app with a spec file for Suse. I
</I>><i> gave up trying to modify it for Mandriva. Quite apart from standardisation
</I>><i> however, there are packages in one distro with a different name from another.
</I>><i> I would like to see a switch added to the rpm command to tell it: "This
</I>><i> package of mine fits that dependency you asked for."
</I>
You mean like adding a "Provides:" tag to a package ?
><i> A tarball I tried to compile recently (brand new on Freshmeat) specified
</I>><i> dependencies older than what I had installed. What I had didn't match. That
</I>><i> may be sloppy coding. An "or newer" spec would have fixed it.
</I>
Since this is a tarball, no, that just coding. And either the coder was
sloppy, or the strict version check was required because of upstream
change. In any case, a rpm would not solve this.
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Michael Scherer
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