[plug] hmmm Linus being opinionated again :-P

[Cameron Patrick]

Bernd Felsche wrote:

> >Nice idea. Do you know of any projects along these lines, perhaps
> >wrapping around urpmi/apt-get/whatever?
> 
> I don't know of any projects o do that. They'd need to integrate
> with the desktop environment and file browsers for "normal" users.
> As per the "Open with..." menu option.

Zeroinstall comes pretty close.  http://zeroinstall.sf.net/

Cameron