> > Right, and that's why we were talking about stuff like flatpak that > > bring the application with its dependencies, more or less like a > > container. > > That's a better solution for such cases than shipping the software > in Debian. > > And it's distribution-agnostic, meaning it can be provided once by > upstream for all distributions instead of duplicating work in every > Linux distribution.
This is not exactly what I meant. What we are talking about is adding another section and/or another format to the Debian archive so we can publish packages for these applications that come with their dependencies. With things being integrated in a Debian system they are kind of Debian specific. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
