On Monday 06 August 2007 17:09, Chris Wagner wrote: > 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.
Gdebi at least uses packages intended for use in the Debian package management system (personally, I think it's a mistake for it to be installed by default, but that's another arguement). What I have yet to see is an automated way to make packages that consistently and reliably work across multiple architectures on diverse hardware. The issue isn't making installation easy, the issue is the reliability and usability of the underlying packages that have not been designed for our packaging system. I could see extending the gdebi UI to support multiple package installation, but before we get into making foreign packages easy to install, I think we should figure out if they are actually going to work reliably enough. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
