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Re: [MiNT] Software packaging (was: opkg / coldmint)
Hello all,
I'd like to add aheretic point of view, from a normal Atari user.
Why inists on unixoid packaging at all? We Atarians are used to have
single contained software distributions since the very start.
Software always came either a floppy disk or could simply be put in one
folder that could be copied anywhere.
I know that proper packaging makes it a lot easier to keep track but on
an Atari I personally just copy the stuffs. And the RPMs etc are most
often in the way, I extract what I need for a non-unix setup.
Thank god, on Atari we hardly have the dependency hell for ordinary
software, only for kernel stuffs. In contrast to Linux, an RPM with
networking tools from the 90s still works with my already dated MiNt
1.16 while otoh a 90s vintage RPM for Linux would fail to install in 95%
of all cases.
How about packaging systems with a more GEM setup without unix
infrastructure in mind? That would be more useful for actual
non-developer users. No installer apps necessarily....
Regards,
Matthias
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