Re: [Helidelinux-devel] Opengroup XDSA spec

[Rolf V. <rol...@he...>]

Bennett Todd wrote:
> 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.

I didn't like that either, and thus I would not call this an
open standard. But, anyway, it's better than ISO.

> 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.

After re-reading the spec, I think it's indeed unnecessarily complex,
but it is good input if we ever try to make yet another package manager.
And I'm going to :-).

Rolf.