kpackage and similar offer a graphic inetrface that is similar to add/remove programs - they just havent gone the step further and integrated extra module control, you have to do it. And as for tryng to add say, gxedit and having extra packages installed, thats called dependencies in linux - if you want it to work - you must install them! In short, linux does have the equivalent, working in a similar way, but it is quite primative in user facilities and operation compared to the microsoft product! I would dearly be able to look at a display and see what I need to install a package, before I download it, not after like linux does. Mandrake Update is also a form of auto-installation. And there are the debian folks who script apt-get so it runs in the background and keeps their system up to date - automatically. What Linux does give is more low level control, but paradoxicly what it needs is better high level control such as a better uninstall, be able to preview changes with little work and handhold those with little experiance, whilst keeping low level control. So whats the distinction - control (Linux), usability (MS). And food for thought, the more control you give someone, without the help or knowlege to control it, the more damage they can do. Dont confuse the design decisions made by MS with being unsophisticated, it is often VERY sohpisticated under the hood, particularly in gui design, where kde (which I use) and gnome (urk) are playing catchup. BillK > I think you're missing one very basic distinction between the Windoze > world and the Linux world (and thus the breadth of the problem of > auto-installation). >
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