Dear Mr Sisodiya > Thats exactly is one problem for newbies (and not for me and you). Why can't > Linux community make a unified base system and on top of that we can create > package. There is a unified base system. Linux is what it is due to different approaches tried by all. If 100 people work on a thing, it is likely that different types will come up. It is plain human nature. The real problem is only about usability and being straight forward. Many distributions have done it. The real need is that usability and ergonomics should be built into the softwares. This is not happening because of many reasons. The major reason is that:- (a) developers think in a particular way which is incompatible with what normal user thinks. Many developers are writing code for themselves to address a need. Its not always about world good. (b) There are not enough people who'd write a patch and get it updated for usability. (c) Wishlist bugs are often not addressed (if they get filed. many inconvenienced will not file a bug at all. The developer is of course doing it the way he wants and is comfortable with). since the developer's time is not enough to take care of the critical bugs itself in many cases. (d) There are not enough volunteers for the technical and non-technical tasks. This also means number of work hours available. It would have been a good idea to have usability teams for the major desktop environments atleast which guide individual softwares. > I have not worked on windows but how come windows software do not > include dependencies.. They do have dependencies. Its just that most developers will try to develop their own libraries which they use or refer to hard coded libraries which are conveniently in the respective installed folders. So at the time of installation they put all the stuff they need (usually unless a third party library is used as mentioned by Anoop). Thats not the case here for obvious reasons.
Once distros become more mature and softwares have more people looking into it things can improve. Perhaps its time that a core international group were to be formed which would look into these things specifically. Clearly a distro can only do so much since it is just packaging the softwares. They don't have a really big say in what the software should be doing. Volunteers must come up for the same. Hope this puts things in the right perspective. Best Regards Hildebrand -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
