On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:16, Mark Goldstein wrote: > > I have been wondering if package managers as we know them today > > can never be proper solution to software installation. If people > > are to use it, it needs to be better and easier than 'setup.exe'. > > Personally I do not like "setup.exe" style. First, I always disable > autoexec, because I hate when something starts working out of my > control.
For really experienced users they are the greatest thing since sliced bread. But for the rest, I'm not really sure. Given 'setup.exe' approach, you download a file and click it. While this can be made as such with package managers as well, there still are way too many things that user has to know and/or that can break. In general, people that I've been slowly trying to familiarize in Linux fail to install anything 95% of the times for various of reasons. > I do not think it is possible to fully automate this process (there > will always be situations like that one). Windows doesn't always work either. That's not the issue here. -- // Janne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
