Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Jun 2009 12:24 UTC, submitted by ralsina
There are a lot of people who believe that program and application management is currently as good as it gets. Because the three major platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac OS X - all have quite differing methods of application management, advocates of these platforms are generally unwilling to admit that their methods might be flawed, leading to this weird situation where over the past, say, 20 years, we've barely seen any progress in this area. And here we are, with yet another article submitted to our backend about how, supposedly, Linux' repository method sucks or rules.
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2008-11-27
What I really miss on linux is a standardized way of installing stuff that does not come in source form - mostly talking about games.
The package manager is great when it comes to installing/uninstalling programs as long as they are from a repository. I wish there was a way for my package manager to be able to handle a precompiled binary blob so I can add the binary to the package manager and it will handle the blob just as if it was a program installed from the repository.
Now that would simplify distribution of games for linux.
Edited 2009-06-24 14:51 UTC