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piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---I think the best idea for a distro-independent, user friendly package manager is probably a source-package manager as suggested by piratePenguin.
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:D
That idea, once implemented, won't be a whole load different to the *BSD's and Gentoo's ports collections. Probably cleaner, and it'd be easier (actually, after really thinking about it, probably not 'easier', but...) to make really good frontends. And most likely it'll be distro-independent too.

Pathos:

--- Quote from: dmcfarland ---I know how to build from src. I was reffering for a user friendly way for people to install apps. I have some technical knowledge, hardware, M$ and little bit of some other stuff.
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If you want easy, go for a distro like debian, or ubuntu.

slackware doesn't do things that way because thats the way they like it. But you can just use gslapt and install everything from the ftp repositories very easily.

Calum:

--- Quote from: Refalm ---People should start to use apt-get more. It's the ultimate package system.
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it should become the default method of package management on any *nix system in my opinion.

regardless of the different package formats for different unices (which i think you will never get rid of) i do think there needs to be one singular interface to manage packages with. apt has that, it's virtually identical between RH/fedora and debian and other similar projects like urpmi, slapt and yum just need to form up in some standardly specified way (perhaps they could all become compatible with the same repositories as each other) and they do need to put dependency checking AND fixing into it. apt is great at this, but slapt-get is not! urpmi is pretty good in my opinion, but last time i used it it did get a little confused.

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