Re: [Helidelinux-devel] Opengroup XDSA spec

[Bennett T. <be...@ra...>]

2004-06-01T13:36:05 Rolf Veen:
> http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/c701.htm

Sounds interesting --- but I'm not about to give them my name and
email addr, which they demand, without even offering a privacy
policy.

> It is a wider view of what a package system should take
> into account. There is an implementation:
>=20
> http://swbis.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for that ptr, I was at least able to get a feel for the
taxonomy of tags and whatnot without having to register with The
Open Group:-).

I would question "wider view of what a package system should take
into account"; it seems to me like it provides a subset of the
functionality of rpm, which being more complex.

-Bennett