On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 23:16:11 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
Look at all that idiotic bullshit the users have to deal with
just for something that *could* have been a trivial
download/extract/run
It is simple, rational and I'll take it any day over
download/extract/run idiom. Actually, I stopped installing
anything without making a package before a long time ago. Other
for Windows, of course, but, oh well, it is Windows. You sound
biased.
Secondly, where do you get that crazy idea that all end-users
only
ever have one OS to deal with? ATM, I've got a couple windows
machines,
a kubuntu desktop (old), and a debian 6 server. And that's not
counting
VMs.
It is possible, but if you have a single language to deal with
and a lot of OSes, your cases is probably a minority and few OSes
with lot of languages are more relevant. I use 4 OSes in daily
workflow too and I honestly can't imagine how can you use one
without learning package manager in details anyway. Sorry, but is
sounds completely ignorant.
Other people have even more than that, and it doesn't help
anyone to
have a totally different set of instructions for doing the same
damn thing each one. *I* can install any version of DMD I want
on any
of my systems by doing this:
dvm install 2.0xx
And it is one more command to know as your supposed to know your
package manager _anyway_. It is a damn first thing to learn about
your distro.
And finally, there's two types of users here, lib users and app
users:
I am speaking about dependencies here. They naturally leak from
build system to distribution package. And if you think that large
HDDs is a reason to package boost libs for hundreds of times,
than I need to thank very same fucked up logic for having Core i7
sometimes behave as slow as 10 year old Celeron on trivial
applications.
P.S. gems are Ruby, not Python
