[plug] Smart Package Manager - Labix

[Cameron Patrick]

Daniel J. Axtens wrote:

> > A friend just pointed me at this site.  Anyone know anything about this,
> > or had a play with it.  It seems to add something to a recent thread.
> >
> > http://labix.org/smart
> Aaah! not another! :P

At least this one is a wrapper around sensible package systems, not a
reinvented hexagonal wheel.

BTW, a few references about autopackage which I was trying to find at
the last PLUG talk:


  http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/autopackage_designed_by_monkeys-2005-03-28-14-20.html

    "From my point of view, the autopackage format is mainly notable
    for being an executable shell archive type format with as far as I
    can see, no formal design documentation."  [...]
    "Worst. Package. Format. Ever."


  https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8308

    "autopackage is not nearly suitable for Ubuntu's packaging
    requirements, and in general there are better ways of solving the
    problems that it tries to address, within the Ubuntu packaging
    system.  Our efforts will be better spent improving Ubuntu's
    packaging system than trying to integrate with autopackage."


  http://www.licquia.org/archives/2005/03/27/autopackage-considered-harmful/

    "If something is installed by Autopackage, and later that same
    thing is shipped by Debian, the two packages will barf all over
    each other, causing both packages to fail (despite their
    unsubstantiated claim otherwise)."


  http://wiki.lugradio.org/index.php?title=Episode_25/Transcript&redirect=no
  (Search for Autopackage, there's an interview with one of the
  developers defending against Joey's criticism.)

    "Once you sort through all the crap, his point seems to be that
    you can't parse it with alien. Which isn't something we care about
    at all."


Cameron.