On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:50:36PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:52:41PM +0000, Lee Hyde wrote: > > original poster is making. Windows users are presented with a single > > setup.exe while debian/ubuntu users are presented with a multitude of > > individual .deb files. This is not user friendly! > > Nonsense. dpkg -i *.deb is user friendly, despite what you want to claim. > That graphical tools might make it difficult is no argument.
Beisde that, you agree that .deb is what users should know. How on earth are they then NOT to know how to install them? (And install all of debs one program consists of?) If we follow your thinking, there would be NO dependencies at all allowed and every app needs to include every possible piece of software it needs - be it (security-)buggsy, grossly oudated, unstable or whatever) just to please users. [ Disclaimer: The packages which get out of the installer and are in that .tar.gz DO suck. I don't deny that. I wholeheartly agree with you that THEY are user-unfriendly. dpkg is not. ] Grüße/Regards, René -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
