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Calamares 1.0 Distribution-Independent Installer Framework Released
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostAs specified by the LSB, they're called RPMs
The problem is that unless you statically link everything in, which you'll be yelled at for, distros are too different at the core for sharing packages between distribution families.
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Originally posted by SystemCrasher View PostCode:Calamares is built with Qt 5, C++11, Boost.Python, (bits of) KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Partition Manager.
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Originally posted by SystemCrasher View PostCode:Calamares is built with Qt 5, C++11, Boost.Python, (bits of) KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Partition Manager.
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Code:Calamares is built with Qt 5, C++11, Boost.Python, (bits of) KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Partition Manager.
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Originally posted by varikonniemi View PostPerhaps the same team could make an unified package format next?
The problem is that unless you statically link everything in, which you'll be yelled at for, distros are too different at the core for sharing packages between distribution families.
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Originally posted by varikonniemi View PostI'm impressed by Calamares. It is clean, fast, easy to use and it just works.
Perhaps the same team could make an unified package format next?
Even if a universal package format (say, .uvp, for example) was created, how are you going to get the different distributions to agree on a standard file directory hierarchy?
First, we have the Debian-style (and possibly used by Slackware, Gentoo as well)
Code:/lib /lib32 /usr/lib /usr/lib32
Code:/usr/lib/i386 /usr/lib/x64 /usr/lib/<arch type>
Code:/lib /lib64 /usr/lib /usr/lib64
Until all distributions can agree on a single standard heirarchy for their filesystem, there's no chance in hell a unified packaging format will happen, You'd end up seeing distribution-specific .uvp packages being made just to cater to each distribution's file heirarchy's idiosyncrasies, which totally defeats the purpose of a standard package format.
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I'm impressed by Calamares. It is clean, fast, easy to use and it just works.
Perhaps the same team could make an unified package format next?
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Originally posted by Zoll View PostSo how does this differ from something like Nix?
Edit: my bad, this is NOT a package installer. And there I was hoping for a universal package installer. Guess we'll see something perhaps before 2020.
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