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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: starting to write a KDE auto-installer
From:       Meir Kriheli <mksoft () netvision ! net ! il>
Date:       2001-08-22 8:31:19
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On Wednesday 22 August 2001 11:49, Marko Samastur wrote:
> Dne torek 21 avgust 2001 23:49 je Meir Kriheli napisal(a):
> > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 00:38, Nick Betcher wrote:
> >
> > Excuse me if I'm re-iterating but here goes:
> >
> > I like apt a lot, and it installed KDE for me with no effort at all
> > (had hell of a time doing the same on Mandrake. I'm also building
> > from CVS on a LinuxFromScratch machine ), but I'm not sure it is the
> > best solution for the auto-installer problem.
>
> If you think building sources is the way to go, how come you installed
> binaries.

On some machines I've installed from source and on others from binaries, I 
like trying different ways to do almost anything (on as many distros as I can 
- I even have several distros sitting on VMware machines just to try stuff), 
I'm that kind of a person :-)

> I dislike your idea for several reasons:
> 1. I don't have the most modern machine on the planet. It took half a
> day to build KDE on it in pre2.0 days. It would take probably even
> longer now. I dislike wasting my time and so do most people.
> 2. It wasteful, because a bunch of people would be doing the same thing.
> 3. It would fail on many occasions. What then? Compiler errors are IMHO
> less user friendly then dependency errors.
> 4. Do you really think your target group (newbies with problems
> installing packages) would like to sit there and wait for hours for
> magic to happen? When it would fail, do you think they would be less
> irritated or more then they would be if package manager told them
> immediatelly that they can't install those packages?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> 	Marko
>
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