Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1639 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday March 1 2009, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> Randall R Schulz schreef:
> > > > > Use The Source, Luke! :)
> >
> > A proposition with which I cannot agree. Software that wants users
> > should be documented. It's preposterous to expect potential users
> > to reverse engineer a program's use and operation from its source
> > code.
>
> But then there are some that consider pre-compiled software harmful
> and user-hostile.

That's an entirely different matter. If you want to run only software 
whose source you can read, that's great. But most software users are 
not programmers and this is meaningless to them.


> It all depends on what your definition of a user is. Some users are
> pointy-click drones, and other users are power users.

And which are more numerous? This is the same as with any technology, it 
cannot succeed if it only caters to the needs of cognoscenti.


> Anyway ncdu *has* documentation.

Great. So why give that inane "use the source" line?


> ... It is cleanly packaged as a compileable tarball, ...

People who have work to do and / or who are not software developers 
should not and cannot be expected to build software in order to be able 
to use it.


You still haven't answered my question: Where I (or Kai) can get ncdu 
properly packaged for openSUSE?


> --
> Amedee


Randall Schulz
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