On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:46:48 +0000, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Ppas are unofficial repos developed by 3rd parties that the Ubuntu > Community and Canonical have little or no control over. So it's kinda > fairly unusual type of repo but definitely a sub-set of what people > typicallymean when they say repo. Except that the name "repo" tends to > imply some sort of Quality Assurance. > > > PPa is more like the mad Windows way of just letting people download and > install any piece of crap from any dodgy website anywhere and then > wondering why malware is such a prolific problem. Of course it's fairly > possible in Gnu&Linux too except that you have to be a bit more advanced > than a simple point&click user so Ppas just lower the bar. > > In most distros people would just join the team of packagers and help > with packing their stuff properly for everyone to use. > > > > It's not really Ubuntu's fault that Gnome craziness that has sent > several forks of Gnome spinning off, such as Mate or Cinamon. Those > forks are now being used in several different distros sometimes as an > alternative to the weird new Gnome. If only Gnome had been able to > consider > > 1. Keeping roughly the same look&feel 2. Started thinking about > incorporating touch and gesture then maybe we wouldn't be in this mess. > > > > Both things are a pain but only 1 of them is Ubuntu's fault. > > Regards from > > Tom :)
Sigh. If you want to talk bad about Ubuntu, I'm right there. The Unity desktop is, to me, an awful change in the way Ubuntu does their business. I gave up on Ubuntu's distros after 10.04. But I use distros that use Ubuntu 12.04 as their base, and thus have the software repository available to make installation/updates simple. I may be in the minority here, but I think asking users to build Evolution every time there's a new version can be a bit daunting for new and inexperienced users. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
