Re: AutoPortage

This idea has come up many times since the project was first created.
The whole point of autopackage is that those sorts of systems don't
scale and tend to be unreliable - this is discussed more in the FAQ.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Matthew Tedder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has any thought been given to building a system to support maintenance of
> autopackages or is the effort focused on just getting application developers
> to build autopackages, individually?
>
> I am considering building an "AutoPortage" something like BSD ports or
> Gentoo's Portage.  It would be based on a registry of where to download the
> sources for each version of each application along with a script to make and
> package.
>
> This would be a server-side tool for efficient maintenance of autopackages.
> I am still pondering the details, but need to ask if any similar endeavor is
> already taking place by chance?
>
> Matthew
>

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