[plug] Easy Installation: Linux Desktop Market

[John Knight]

 >
> > For packages that simple, you could probably get away with using alien
> > to convert from .deb to the package format of the week - assuming that
> > the libraries are binary compatible.  Mostly they will be, kinda.
>
>I was aiming for the majority - the nasty packages you listed are the
>responsibility of the distro to abuse; the average autopackage user
>probably doesn't care about them if the bright shiny new program they
>just installed works.
>
>OTOH, if the new package doesn't work or breaks the rest of the
>distro, we have problems.
>
>Basically, nothing on this world is perfect, but we can get a lot
>closer than we are at the moment.


That was very articulate! The majority of the discussion summed up (better) 
in three short paragraphs!