Why write a new package manager anyway?

Posted Jan 16, 2014 21:23 UTC (Thu) by johannbg (guest, #65743)
In reply to: Why write a new package manager anyway? by rahulsundaram
Parent article: DNF and Yum in Fedora

In anycase there is nothing preventing Fedora to switch oh wait yes there is...

"if you unify them all, you will have a single Linux distribution."

For quite sometime now ( couple of years ) the plumbing layer has been slowly moving to the direction of becoming whole which is an move which I see significantly strengthen the GNU/Linux ecosystem but I disagree that we wind up with a single Linux distribution since I philosophize and say what deviates distributions now is not so much the bits but more their philosophy and the communities surrounding each philosophy and those will always exist which also is good.

I agree it's going to be interesting to see if an to what extent GNOME Software changes the landscape for distributions shipping Gnome and distributions in general and I would not be surprised if it became it's own distribution in that process as well.

Why write a new package manager anyway?

Posted Jan 18, 2014 10:09 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

" In anycase there is nothing preventing Fedora to switch oh wait yes there is..."

Finish your sentence if you want others to follow your train of thought.

" For quite sometime now ( couple of years ) the plumbing layer has been slowly moving to the direction of becoming whole which is an move which I see significantly strengthen the GNU/Linux ecosystem"

The plumbing layer is consolidating however your idea of consolidating packaging formats is certainly not happening. There is now ever more than before.

" I agree it's going to be interesting to see if an to what extent GNOME Software changes the landscape for distributions shipping Gnome and distributions in general and I would not be surprised if it became it's own distribution in that process as well."

It would have a software center that would act as a distribution point but there is no real reason it would morph into a Linux distribution on its own. I don't see the logical reason or the commercial incentive to do that.