Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > That, plus the fact that the usage model for most Linux distros pushes > users to prefer installing apps via their package manager, tends to make > app authors hesitant to building or distributing Linux binaries at all. > Instead they rely on distro package maintainers to pick up their app > and package it. While this works decently well, there's often a lag, > especially for less popular apps.
The distro model certainly doesn't work for everybody. Too often distro's fiddle with the application and break the package. Since they don't/can't test it, they don't notice the problem, and the author of the package then gets a lot of the grief. The distro model doesn't work for commercial applications either, discouraging many serious applications from supporting Linux. So more support for independent application installation would certainly be a good thing. Graeme Gill. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
