How about a Smart Package Format?

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> Yes, it would be great. Smart is not intended to be a universal
> package manager though.

It is intended to be a universal package manager in the sense of
being an application which manages different types of packages
and repository formats.

> Not only do you have to get the packages to install universally, but
> different distros execute scripts differently and place files in
> different places.

Indeed. It's not intended to replace dpkg or rpm.

Smart has a lot of the infrastructure needed to replace them, but
the main question is: why?  why would it help at all to introduce
yet another format?  In the end, a package format is only useful
if there's wide adoption, and wide adoption in this case is a lot
more about politics than it is about technical details.

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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