Re: [Engine-devel] Things to be done to support Ubuntu hosts
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 07:03:05AM -0500, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
Antoni Segura Puimedon wrote:
> Would it make sense to leverage packagekit to abstract away the distro
> packaging differences? http://www.packagekit.org/pk-using.html
Not really... as it is egg and chicken...
How do I install this package on vanilla host?
Plus it's still likely that package names differ. I still think some
abstraction here could help. Try some autodetection on package managers
and prefer packagekit, then try yum, then apt-get, then aptitude for
example.
And... it does not support gentoo as far as I can see :)))
As a Gentoo user, I don't find this suprising. The whole concept of
USE-flags looks hard to abstract away and still be compatible with all
the other distributions. Especially if there's USE-dependencies in the
mix.