Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-06 Thread Chris Wagner
Every time someone comes up with a new, more-intuitive way to install software on Linux, there seems to be more negative comments about it than positive. I recall similar comments when Gdebi was proposed, but it seems to have gone over okay. I only see one major flaw in Krzysztof's model: securit

Re: I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third party repository

2007-05-25 Thread Chris Wagner
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 11:18 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > With the current cryptic instructions, though, even if we gave > absolutely no information about what this process does we'd be no worse > off than we are now - users are already blindly entering terminal > commands. If we couple the file-b

Re: Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Wagner
I'm probably way out of my element, here, but wouldn't the ideal solution be to load services based on what hardware is present. And by "what hardware is present", I don't mean at install or boot-up; I mean it in general (i.e., if someone plugs in an HP printer, then the HP printer service(s) will