![]() Just a simple 'put these files on the system and give them a name' API for all distros with maybe some architecture queries so a developer doesn't need to make and maintain a 32 & 64 bit deb file, rpm and tarball while drawing the ire of users on systems that have some other package manger. I wouldn't expect dependency management and I wouldn't try to update management in pass-one. ![]() I'm not as familiar with rpm or dpkg but I believe it has to be possible. I could see an easy way to bolt that onto portage. Maybe LSB got better since I last looked at it.rnrnAlso, I think that all of the native package managers need to provide a common, generic install interface that installers like bitrock, mojo and can target to tell the system "I'm installing this list of files as a package named Foo" so the package manager can be aware of the files, checksum them if it wants and uninstall them if needed. rnrnBut I guess what I really meant was "LSB, but better." A larger list of library ABIs that a developer can reasonable rely on. I've had to fight to get FAKK2 Heavy Gear2 to work at times. You have the mess that came with pulseaudio and all the games that had to release updates to support it. You get problems with some things because GTK 1 is dead. Some programs dynamically link and you run into problems because different distro build different versions of packages. For Terminus you have to runĮcho "terminus 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/ossrnecho "terminus 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss You have to jump through hoops sometimes like getting compat libs and the like. ![]() Hamish, you are right that it is possible to still run old games, but I've had trouble with them.
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