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Subject:    Re: [Fwd: Nine things KDE should learn from Mac OS X]
From:       ra1n <pk20it () yahoo ! it>
Date:       2005-08-06 8:24:35
Message-ID: 42F473C3.9080104 () yahoo ! it
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Leo Savernik ha scritto:
> Am Freitag, 5. August 2005 15:06 schrieb David Laban:
> 
>>7. Not entirely sure what he's talking about there, so I must have been
>>living under a rock, but surely the whole point of the common file
>>structure in all linux is that we *don't* get people doing stuff like this
>>and installing apps all over the place
> 
> 
> The application bundles is the *best* invention OSX boasts. No installation 
> hassles, no remnants after uninstall, no need for package managers to sort 
> out the crap in /usr.
> 
> mfg
> 	Leo
It's a NeXT invention (but also present in RISCOS too) and it's a great 
invention, on linux only ROX (http://rox.sourceforge.net) uses that, and 
while  it's not solving most of the linux packaging problems 
(dependencies on specified lib versions, API compatibility, etc etc) it 
could be a good boost for example for commercial apps, which have a few 
dependencies (and sometimes are statically linked) the could be easily 
packaged in one bundle instead of three or four different packages for 
different systems.
I proposed some time ago to support this, we already have a good example 
(ROX) so should be trivial to add support for bundles, or AppDirs like 
ROX calls them

Cheers

Luca

	

	
		
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