Speaking about things that I know very little about here, but maybe build a container with Subsurface and all it's dependencies inside it? Or do they not work that way?
Benjamin On 11 Jun 2014 22:26, "Dirk Hohndel" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 03:53:29PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Which brings me back to another one of my pet projects. Create a self > > > contained Linux install that uses libraries that I ship with the > package > > > and runs on any Linux distro - screw the packaging rules and other > > > constraints that the distro wants to put on me. > > > > And here we see Dirk in his worst behaviour. Kids, don't repeat this at > > home. > > Oh no, not at all. This is not even close to my worst behavior. > This is actually one of my pet peaves with Linux - not Linux the kernel, > but Linux the eco system. > > The idiotic distributions, run by people who can't see the forest for the > trees. > > Why is Android the only successful Linux on the client? It has an appstore > and things "just work". > Why does Linus say that "Steam OS" is maybe the best hope for Linux on the > Desktop? Because it solves the app issue. > > The #1 reason why Linux has failed to have any success whatsoever on the > client (desktop and laptop) is that it is absolutely impossible to package > and ship an application that will work on people's PCs. > The standard answer from the open source zealots? Ship sources. Sure, I do > that - but then how do people get the dependencies and heck, WTF, why > should Joe User know how to build an app? > Oh, and the distributions will just include my app. Yeah, sure, months and > months after we do a release. And enforcing their silly packaging rules on > us (like not allowing us to statically link against libdivecomputer, or > forcing people to install 150MB of Marble just because we want the > library, and of course not allowing us to modify that library to remove > the things we don't want). > > It is very straight forward for me to create Windows and Mac binaries that > run on ALL Windows and Mac machines sold in the past 6-8 years. It is > utterly impossible to create a Linux binary that runs on even 10% of the > Linux boxes sold in the past 2 years. > > OK, off my soap box, back to solving more pressing issues. > > /D > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface >
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