Re: The objectroot FHS

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Sepero <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Trans. Perhaps it would be possible to use the deb package format. It
> would likely appeal to more people.
>
>
I have thought about that myself. It is tempting b/c of how mature the dpkg
system is. But, to handle the differences in installation locations and
index linking would require one of two approaches: Either forking and
modifying dpkg and apt or writing a pretty smart wrapper around them.
Creating and modifying a fork of dpkg/apt is a major undertaking, which I
do not think is practical --unless it can be done in a completely pluggable
way that the upstream managers would be willing to merge. A wrapper on the
other hand might be tricky, yet I think it could be done. However in either
case there might be too many tough edge cases with regards to differences
in how the systems are configured to work which would make it more trouble
than it is worth. I am not sure, but I'd hate to have to compromise our
design b/c Debian works a different way that can't be worked around. Of
course, I suppose we could keep a black list of problematic packages and
offer up alternate versions for those that are problematic. But might it
turn out to be too many?

Just the same, one of the principles of GotoLinux is to give preference to
scripting languages where possible. So putting it all together, I tend to
think it is probably better to utilize modified versions of Gobo's scripts
--they may still need considerable improvements but at least it would be in
our full control and much easier to work on as scripts rather then compiled
C code.

But I am certainly open to persuasion if my concerns are misplaced.

        trans.

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