On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.com wrote:
Walter Bender wrote:
Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is
something more fundamentally broken here. 5000 packages. The Apple app
store adds that many new apps every week it seems. Why
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.com wrote:
Walter Bender wrote:
Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is
something more fundamentally broken here. 5000
Furthermore, the App Store has strong incentives to update and release
new software constantly. Each new app is placed into a 'new app' view
that encourages installation of new apps. It extends their marketing
beyond keyterm search and apple's ranking/voting system (which has
problems with
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Seth Woodworth s...@isforinsects.com
wrote:
Walter Bender wrote:
Slightly off topic, but reading
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Seth Woodworth
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:13:33PM -0500, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
In the sugar environment we have the great resource of
activities.sugarlabs.org
that children can browse through to add new activities. However, on
the Gnome side of things we only have the yum terminal commands. While
I
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 02:55 -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is
something more fundamentally broken here. 5000 packages. The Apple app
store adds that many new apps every week it seems. Why aren't there
5 million packages available
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:17 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
Good thing we reinvented the wheel here. RPM packaging was too
complete and flexible for kids or teachers (or school administrators).
I had the same gripe, and then talkedemailed with Seth Vidal and RPM devs.
The answer is
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org:
-Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality?
-Or would including it increase the complexities of managing
deployments?
One disadvantage of doing this is
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:54 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org:
-Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality?
-Or would including it increase the complexities of
Walter Bender wrote:
Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is
something more fundamentally broken here. 5000 packages. The Apple app
store adds that many new apps every week it seems. Why aren't there
5 million packages available instead of just 5000?
Money. The
Walter Bender wrote:
Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is
something more fundamentally broken here. 5000 packages. The Apple app
store adds that many new apps every week it seems. Why aren't there
5 million packages available instead of just 5000?
Benjamin M.
2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org:
-Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality?
-Or would including it increase the complexities of managing
deployments?
One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the use of
olpc-update -- pristine updates would fail.
On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:52 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org:
-Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality?
-Or would including it increase the complexities of managing
deployments?
One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the
Neil,
Thanks for bringing this up. It looks like this could be of some value
to deployments and something they could easily add should they choose
to customize their build image. Keep up the good work and let us know
how development is going.
Regards,
Reuben
On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:54 PM,
One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the use of
olpc-update -- pristine updates would fail. And also the software
would be silently lost when an olpc-update happens, which is now
Good thing we reinvented the wheel here. RPM packaging was too
complete and flexible for kids
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:17:10PM -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the use of
olpc-update -- pristine updates would fail. And also the software
would be silently lost when an olpc-update happens, which is now
Good thing we reinvented the
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the use of
olpc-update -- pristine updates would fail. And also the software
would be silently lost when an olpc-update happens, which is now
Good thing we reinvented the
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:13 -0500, Reuben K. Caron wrote:
Since .XO and .XOL bundles were specifically designed to be safe for
installation and removal, I'm concerned the inclusion of gnome-
packagekit would allow one to more easily break their installation but
I also think it would be
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