![]() Feel free to flame, bait, crush me, but universal “source reporsity” is not really a bad idea – it would also work with all architechtures too! Probably some configuration options only would be need to change in Makefiles… Anyone has/had same feelings? Well, my ideas. But still I like the idea of gentoo and freebsd. And no, I am not Gentoo user, I’m long term Slackware user. It could not be that way – I bet it wouldn’t require that much changes to use Gentoo reporsity worldwide – like FreeBSD does with Ports. Well, portage does this already – but it’s limited to one distro. configure tells what depencies source needs – why no one hasn’t written a tool that could get depencies from that, then search web/database/something for them. this is Open _SOURCE_, people should learn how to compile source. “Universal” tool could be something like Portage – Something that works with source packages. I am NOT trying to troll with this (seriously), but I’m trying people to get that sources work with all distros (unless distro maker for reason or another patches them to hell). I wouldn’t sympathize as much with the author if I hadn’t gone through hell and back because of this very issue during this past week. Packing software is not the domain of end-users or system administrators. If they came from a Mac or Windows, they know how easy to install that application was. And end users are not stupid because they cannot compile a huge application from source. If you don’t think this is a problem worth solving, you obviously do not deal with end users or are not an end user yourself. This is an application with hundreds of thousands of installations. Mac and Windows folks can use plone in a matter of minutes. I moved to Linux because of choice and no I am trapped in distribution prison, where if I find an interesting piece of software I cannot use it unless a kind soul has packed it for my distribution and this doesn’t happen as often as it should. There are no rpms for the latest version and rebuilding the rpm does not produce a working rpm. I have been using Linux for a few years and spent the last week trying to get Plone from to compile. ![]() The author of the article has a very valid point. It is a crying shame that so many of you are trying to kill the messenger without really hearing the message. After being able to use a single command to install a program, or use a simple GUI to just double-click on the program you want and have it installed, all the stuff you have to do in other OSs just seems so primitive. ![]() Plus, with the distribution’s RedHat base, it will be compatible with a wide range of commercial software as well.ĭespite the issues involved with the repository-based mechanism, software installation is one area where Linux is clearly superior to any other OS. If Fedora gets a large amount of community support behind it, its very possible it could build a repository as large as Debian. One of the stated goals of the Fedora project is to package pretty much every available software package into its repository. In fact, the most annoying part of the install was always J2SDK, whose installation procedure sucks in Windows as well.Īs a community-based distribution, Fedora brings together the advantages of Debian’s huge package repository and RedHat’s excellent distribution core. Out of the half-dozen times I’ve installed 8.0+, there we never a time the system required more configuration work than a comparable Windows install. Ever since RedHat 8.0 came out, I’ve thought it was an excellent distro for the mainstream. I think Fedora could be a very important step in this area. APT + Synaptic pretty much fits that bill, but the distro which has the most complete APT repository (Debian) is not exactly newbie friendly. What matters is whether there is a single easy, widely available, and most importantly, *complete* repository tool. ![]() You will have to rip Portage out of the cold, dead hands of Gentoo users before you’ll they’ll adopt something else as a statndard. Why does everything have to be “universal”? There are a number of distributions out there, with a number of tools suited to those distros. ![]()
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