On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 00:25 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On 26 August 2013 23:55, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Is that why people are getting so defensive about Evolution's > inability to provide what every other project seems to be able > to provide? > > > The current software set available in most Linux distros runs to > several thousand packages. A typical installation runs to several > hundred of these. For example my laptop currently has 1647 installed > packages, of which *not a single one* was downloaded from a > package-specific download site, i.e. the entire set came from distro > repositories. The number of widely-used software projects which > support Linux and have individual multi-distro binary download sites > independent of the "official" repositories are at most in the 10's, > being mainly things like Libreoffice, Thunderbird, Vlc etc. which are > multi-platform (i.e. not Linux-specific).
Sorry, I'm aware that I shouldn't send a duplicated message, if I randomly didn't select the correct account that is used to subscribed to this list, so just an acception, I don't do it for other mails I sent today. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Evolution] Idealism face plants against asphalt [Was: downloads page] Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:23:44 +0200 On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 23:55 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > Is that why people are getting so defensive about Evolution's > inability to provide what every other project seems to be able to > provide? Most projects don't provide downloads for special distribution. Count the projects on http://sourceforge.net/ and https://github.com/ and ... and compare it with the few who provide DEB and RPM packages on a homepage. Not seldom provided packages don't work. For many, likely for most distros DEB and RPM packages are completely useless. Often even a provided package for software at least needs to compile kernel modules, sure it could be automated by dkms, maintainers could provide packages that fit to each kernel update by a distro. But about what are we talking here? About Linux userspace, configurable to the users needs or about a Linux userspace, that fakes to be a replacement for Microsoft and Apple? I won the impression that most of those who continue to discuss with you have another opinion than you've got. Most others likely disagree with you too. However, I try to stop continuing this discussion. I guess now everybody said everything repeated several times. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
