On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 05:05:29AM -0500, Mitt Green wrote: > KatolaZ wrote: > > >Thanks for pointing CRUX out Mitt. However, installing from sources is > >probably not what an average Devuan user would like to do :) > > I'd like to point that from an end-user perspective installing software > is not much different from even Debian: > > 1) user adds a repository (because most of the software is in community > repos) and marks it in the config file; > 2) user updates info about the repositories, usually using 'prt-get update'; > 3) user installs software using 'prt-get install'. >
You forget the fourth step: 4) wait for a certain amount of time before your package is compiled. I won't enter here the long-lasting flame on why compiling the same software on every single machine that uses it is just a waste of time (and resources), so I will simply say "No thanks, I don't want a source-based distro". cut[] > > What prevents devs (kernels packages' maintainers) > from compiling a kernel without initramfs support? (: > Precisely the fact that the kernel package maintainers do not know in advance on which hardware their kernel will run, so they have to compile-in all the possible drivers for all the possible disc controllers and all the possible configurations of root filesystems/volumes. Which is quite a lot of stuff, in the end, especially since 95% of the users will probably need only 5% of that stuff. The problem is that as a general-purpose distribution you can't forget that 5% of users who will need some of that 95% usually useless stuff... My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
