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Davide Bolcioni writes: Having been on the receiving end of some such .tar.gz binaries, I am entirely against this. I often wished I could use SELinux to completely disallow installation of binaries using anything but the package manager.
In my opinion, developers should simply consider packaging integral to application development: if it is not packaged, it's not done yet. It is also best if packaging is left to distributors, so all a developer
has to do is to be package-friendly (i.e. no interactive setup script, because RPM disallows interaction) and let distributors package the software for him.
Antonio writes: What do you think about recent packaging "one file-one program" projects, such as Klik and the italian Infodomestic?
The theory behind the projects is easy and clear. I think those systems, if they are good-developed, could make the future of Unix programs.
Salvo B writes: Uhm.. i'm not sure of encouraging this distribution approch.
Of course for some projects is an obbligate choice but i would not adopt it as a standard solution.
Some linux packaging system such as APT is really mature and sucessfully handles several common installation problems (such as the dipendeces issue).
I think that the way of standardization should be oriented in this direction.
Lee Doolan writes: I don't know if you are hip to this, but, UNIX (TM) runs on a lot of different hardware platforms. Really. A lot.
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