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Hurry up distributors, Smart applications are coming on Sabayon :)

April 4th, 2007 lxnay Leave a comment Go to comments

Ok, that’s another knife hidden in our pocket. Smart Applications are coming! What are they? Well… I’ve just made a demo package that already works on all modern Gentoo based distributions and maybe even on Fedora and OpenSUSE. What are they (again!!!) ? Simple… One application, packaged into a compressed file with all the dependency tree included. Just like how applications work in Windows: unpack –> double click –> run!. That’s it! No hassles! If you have an AMD64 Sabayon install, just download Abiword from here, unpack and double click (from Konqueror or Nautilus) on the .exe files :) !

Amazing, isn’t it? That’s the hidden power of the upcoming Entropy server stack :)

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  1. igknighted
    April 5th, 2007 at 01:18 | #1
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    hmm, it /sounds/ like a great idea, but how do you guard against having many apps all installing the same library? Is there any kind of system check before the included dependencies are installed?

    Also, where are the apps installed to? Do the included dependencies get dropped in a folder for that app (windows style) or do they install linux style into their proper places in /etc, /usr, etc?

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