21 Jan
2014
21 Jan
'14
6 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:34:05PM +0000, Filipe Coelho wrote:
And how are these installed ? Bypassing the distro package management
is a sure recipe for misery. Maybe not immediately, with a bit of
luck the binary you just copied to /usr/bin may work. But sooner or
later your users will get some serious trouble, because you're messing
up their systems. If that's what you want, go on...
Ciao,
--
FA
A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia.
It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris
and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
I seriously don't wish any new user to have to put
up with this.
It might be easy for us that are now used to this sort of things,
but not for them.
Then they should wait until their distro or someone else provides
a package. Or pay someone to do the work for them, just as they
have to for commercial software, or for the mechanic you mention.
Or use a distro that usually provides a shorter release cycle,
e.g. Arch (which is not for noobs).
Unless that
toolchain can magically create packages for all major
distros (and I'm pretty sure it can't do that), what's the point ?
It won't create packages, it will create binaries - which is what
users are looking for.