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[Chris Timberlake <game64@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, i'm going to bring it up again. Don't kill me.

Why not just use something like LibAppImage that handles all the
dependencies and produces a distro-independent binary. PPA's are powerful
and I understand that, but even with LibAppImage it can take a package from
a PPA download any missing dependencies from a base system and bundle them.
It's early in the AM so forgive me.

But essentially you could just build a base system with Fedora, Debian, etc
etc. Then distribute the eOS Apps via LibAppImage Binaries and they would
work across all platforms. PPA's are great don't get me wrong. But being
able to download one simple binary file for an app is even more awesome; or
build that app binary. Especially when becoming distro-agnostic.

[1] https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit
[2] http://portablelinuxapps.org/docs/1.0/AppImageKit.pdf
{3]
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/distro-agnostic-packaging-making-appimages


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <
sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I share Conscious User's concerns. In fact, bazaar is in exactly the same
> situation now. Canonical has limited resources and they have to choose
> where to allocate them.
>
> Moreover, the status of GNOME stack in Ubuntu repos is already daunting.
> The indicator API split, the online accounts split, the fallback stack
> split, the systemd split, now the display server split - they all make
> Ubuntu more and more incompatible with upstream.
>
> But I have a plan!
>
> My idea is to get our packages into all distros we're interested in as
> potential base distros by providing packager's documentation (started at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PrzhK7j3ljgAeYVgbQtdc7OHdMhjkn5f143XDyUMPDc/edit)
> and organizing a sprint/hackfest (
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/packaging-hackfest-luna).
>
>
> With that done, we can easily trick people into making pantheon spins of
> the relevant base distros. This way we'll have several "backup" spins of
> Luna which we'll be able to easily make our main OS if needed.
>
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> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> OS architect @ elementary
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