Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jun 2008 16:51 UTC, submitted by sjvn
Installing software on Linux. In the world of online minefields, this is the big one. Back in the day, you installed software on Linux by compiling it manually. Time-consuming, but assuming you had a decent knowledge of gcc, make, and maintaining library files, this could actually work. Later one came the package management systems that were supposed to make installing software on Linux a breeze: rpm, dpkg, and so on, and so forth. Since human beings have the innate tendency to assume that everyone else is wrong and only they are right, we are now stuck with 3453495 different Linux package managers. Denis Washington, a Fedora developer, is taking steps to resolve this issue.
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2006-03-23
the winblows installer way, is _STUPID_. Developers of applications must be only responsible for _THEIR_ little piece of software, they shouldnt have any say whatsoever on how its installed..
Solution:
provide 2 types of packages(hell, only 1 if they are morons).
1: source
2: self-contained directory containing everything.
this is really easy, with type number 1, the user and/or distribution can simply install/package however the f*** they please.
with type 2, if the provider is a moron and makes crappily closed crapware, the distribution can still just repackage if they please, or if the user has a distribution which doesent prefer to package this application, just download the damned tarball, extract it, and RUN the software.. no crappy msi, no weird third party installers doing weird weird stuff, just run..
how hard can it f--king be? its not hard at all, its just bozos not understanding that there IS NO ISSUE