KDE OS - Why not?

[Marvin Raaijmakers]

Just thinking... If it is possible to write a program that installs an
application on every distro, why isn't it possible to write a program
that creates installation packages for almost every distribution?

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:29 -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> On Thursday 04 January 2007 16:19, Chris wrote:
> > Maybe he's refering to the way you install '3rd party" applications. If
> > something is in the distributions own repositories installation should be
> > easy enough on every distribution, jsut like you explained. So I think what
> > he's looking at is the way you install more current versions of apps or
> > such 3rd party software that's not available from the distribution
> > directly.
> 
> Which the LSB is apparently once again putting effort behind.  It does not 
> replace deb, rpm, etc, but instead allows a check for version of LSB 
> compliance, and can install using the package manager for that distribution.  
> Being LSB compliant, they have the lsb (meta)package which contains all the 
> required libraries.
> 
> So Marco, I would suggest looking to this instead.  Here's the story:
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9555158297.html
> 
> -Joseph M. Gaffney
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