Linux - análisis de la nueva generación de gestores de paquetes

+5 insightful. Analiza las influencias, necesidades y estado de las soluciones actuales para hacer gestores de paquetes multi-distro.

Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again

Potential solution? A mostly informal, flexible base set
          maintained by a standard heirarchical team rather than a
          committee who are willing to patch upstream binaries in
          order to maintain compatibility with pre-existing code: the
          Microsoft approach

            - Not as extreme, majority of software on free desktop
              free software, can be upgraded for zero dollars
              (automatically?) even if it's a pain for the user, so
              affects breaking change cost/benefit analysis

            - However, basic theory is the same: don't break
              compatibility, this is more than ABI/API stability and
              includes things like buggy behaviour apps depend on.

            - We want to support games, these are almost always
              proprietary and worse they have a max shelflife of a few
              months: vendors often not interested in fixing bugs after
              this date, even if people are still playing years after
              release