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MindTooth

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 331

AppInstaller 2011 - Cross-distro Meeting on Application Installer

Recently in Germany there was a cross-distribution meeting among the major vendors (Red Hat, Canonical, Novell, Debian, Mandriva, etc) to discuss a common application installer for Linux and one unified application store / market-place. The goal would be to have a common user-interface for application installation, how/what meta-data to use, determine a defined protocol for non-static meta-data, and decide what meta-data to share across distributions. Fortunately, this was a very successful meeting.

[Phoronix] Introducing AppStream, Multi-Distro App Framework http://j.mp/iiRhvq

Is this something we can expect to see in Arch Linux?

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: AppInstaller 2011 - Cross-distro Meeting on Application Installer

If you package it, they will come... I don't see why you'd ever want to replace pacman though.

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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: AppInstaller 2011 - Cross-distro Meeting on Application Installer

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112006

Closing...

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