On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:16, Mark Goldstein wrote:
I have been wondering if package managers as we know them today can never be proper solution to software installation. If people are to use it, it needs to be better and easier than 'setup.exe'.
Personally I do not like "setup.exe" style. First, I always disable autoexec, because I hate when something starts working out of my control.
For really experienced users they are the greatest thing since sliced bread. But for the rest, I'm not really sure. Given 'setup.exe' approach, you download a file and click it. While this can be made as such with package managers as well, there still are way too many things that user has to know and/or that can break. In general, people that I've been slowly trying to familiarize in Linux fail to install anything 95% of the times for various of reasons.
I do not think it is possible to fully automate this process (there will always be situations like that one).
Windows doesn't always work either. That's not the issue here. -- // Janne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org