What next?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le jeudi 02 juin 2005 à 08:22 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana a écrit :
> On 6/1/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > > BTW., how does osx do installs (just bringing up the meta-file installer
> > > thingy again. Feel free not to answer)?
> > 
> > their package system, umm, err, sucks.
> 
> Yeah! But many applications come packaged in such a way that the user
> simply needs to drag'n'drop them to the /Applications directory.
> That's really simple.

But the technical price for this is awful.

We may soon be able to do something similar from an end-user perspective
(dropping a metadatafile in a directory that's monitored by the system
and triggers an install) but that won't be in spite of rpm/yum but
thanks to them.

There is at least the same gap in underlying infrastructure as there
were between true and false transparency in X.

Moreover all the closed app vendors that would benefit the most from it
went the LSB/Mac way, turned their back on linux packaging principles,
and will be quite unable to exploit the system once it's in place.
They're still learning what a dependency is today!

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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