Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Dec 2006 18:19 UTC
"There has been a lot of discussion in the past few months about RPM - its present state, its future plans, and its leadership team. In particular, the Fedora Project has received numerous requests asking us, "what are you guys doing about RPM?" Here is our answer: The Fedora Project is leading the creation of a new community around RPM. One in which the leaders can come from Fedora, from Red Hat, from Novell, from Mandriva, or from anywhere. Job #1 is to take the current RPM codebase and clean it up, and in doing so work with all the other people and groups who rely on RPM to build a first-rate upstream project."
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The problem I see with Windows and software installations is how just installing something can scar your Windows system for life. Take AOL for instance. I mean, it's almost impossible to get rid of that junk after it's installed. Oh I'm sure someone could do it, but Windows is such a black box as far as I'm concerned that it's next to impossible. Linux on the other hand, you always know where you stand with something like rpm, or manually installing something into opt or what have you.
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2006-01-16
Sad but true, Linux and FLOSS could really learn from Apple and Microsoft when it comes to packaging software.
Are you kidding? Did you ever try Debian or Arch Linux? Or on the other hand, did you ever install software on Windows?
I found all the install shield crap under Windows was _really_ nasty and disturbing. Windows constantly has problems with overwritten DLLs and needs bullshit tricks like permanently copying system files over on boot etc. to remain stable.
With "FLOSS" - wether under Debian or Arch - I just type in the name of the app I want and do _one_ click / enter key press! I don't download stuff, I don't click Next, Next, Next, the uninstaller doesn't uninstall every file touched while installation, ...
I also like the Mac OS way, but only a little bit. At least, apps are easily (un)installed in a clean and unified way.
Having all the libs being maintained and updated seperately gives many features and I wouldn't want to abstain from this powerfull package management.. but it seems to be nearly impossible to do this with proprietary software.