jada
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 Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2025 9:52 pm Post subject: Interview: OpenSUSE's Andreas Jaeger |
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TR: How do you think distro makers can work closer together? How can they collaborate more?
AJ: We have here the RPM Summit where we've invited over some of the Fedora guys. There's one guy walking around here with a Red Hat shirt!
TR: Setting himself up as a target!
AJ: There are certain things that make a lot of sense, especially in RPM. When you release software as source code you want people to make binaries - it helps a lot if you make a .spec file. But if one .spec file only works on one distribution, and you have to write another .spec file for another distribution, it's not easy. That's what we're trying to solve - we're working on guidelines of how to write .spec files. We're working on RPMs having the same sets of patches, so that they get upstream as much as possible.
TR: I'd like to see package names becoming uniform across distros...
AJ: That will be the discussion as well, moving forward... a naming scheme, like Debian has with shared libraries. That's one aspect of distributions working together.
read the full interview here
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I think this is the right way to go. Bundle the knowledge, sources and at the same time keep the independence. |
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