On 06-Nov-13 09:33, Marcin M. wrote:
And somehow Debian and Ubuntu and ... do well it with real depends...
Debian, Ubuntu (and the whole desktop Linux world) is a very different setup from the classic appstore setup (so no orphaned packages/apps, less packages, less metadata, less frequent updates/releases, unlimited CPU/RAM/network). Ubuntu, with the limitation of apt (and yes, I'm a Ubuntu user, and love apt-get-ing) sucked on Maemo once the number of packages went to the thousands (and real stores are with app numbers in the hundred-thousands). It took ages (and a boatload of battery/CPU/flash) just to see if there is an update for something. And I'm not saying this as a plug for RPM-based repositories, for an appstore setup, they are almost as bad.
A dependency system can be really helpful. It's just that the environment changed a bit since the '90s, so while you can implement proof-of-concept level stores in an old-school Linux style packet management (see the Maemo experience), it can hardly scale to the proportions and use-cases modern appstores are aiming at.
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