On 8 December 2014 at 18:09, Mattias Andrée <[email protected]> wrote:
> The goal was to make it as simple as possible, but > perhaps there is a simpler way than UUID:s. > My idea is that the new system leaves all the dependency management to distros: an end user application can depend on distro packages, but can't be depended on itself, so it wouldn't have an ID to specify as a dependency. If a unique ID is needed, which it certainly may be, I'd go for something more like Apple's UTIs (e.g. com.microsoft.Excel), which have at least some meaning without a lookup table. Thomas
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