[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Request for help packaging activities for Sugar on a Stick f

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:05 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> particularly in case of activities.s.o
>
> It is a little early to start reworking the package manager.
>
> We are talking to distributions about certifying Sugar on netbooks for
> OEMS.  In order to feel comfortable supporting Sugar, the
> distributions want to be able to use the package management systems as
> and processes with which thay are comfortable.

I hope we will have a good discussion at fudcon about this. I agree
that using normal packages is the most straight forward approach from
the distribution point of view. But early Sugar design went in a
different direction (with at least a few good reason). So we need to
figure out how to go forward exactly.

Marco