On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 08:33, Damon Jebb wrote:
jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote on 13 June 2004 12:32
well, comparing apples and apples, as it were, your 6 year old w/ linux would likely be attempting to install and rpm file, and if they have seen windows work they very likely would do something like, "click on the file " they want to install, at that point , up pops a window which says , would you like to install this w/ yast2( ?) not certain is says yast2 it may just say yast... average 6 year old would likely say ( click) "yes" and the thing would be installed, unless there were depency issues, in which case small child would yell for local parental unit, w/o a doubt!
The problem with Linux is dependencies. So the need to 'yell for help' is exactly my point.
Errr, uhmmm, that's doesn't hold for Debian based systems. Apt handles the dependencies. The dependency hell problem exists in RPM based systems. Like I said earlier you need to look at other distros. { major snippage } Mike