On Sat, 2022-01-22 at 09:32 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > One of the "mission critical" packages has a "private" module called > snappy, but a widely used Google compression package also called > snappy has been installed on many systems. I'm surprised this sort of thing (two different programs using the same name) doesn't happen a lot more often. With an environment under some kind of distribution control (Fedora and its RPM repos), you could expect that to be managed (first in best dressed, second person has to choose a different name). Though there's no one answer for how to deal with this across multiple distros. And when you run a installed system with programs acquired from various different sources you can't do that, either. There's no one entity in control. > Envs are, however, problematic for the group of users who have never > used a command-liine before. They are often puzzled why their GUI > tool doesn't find the package they just installed to a Python env. I can't fathom how anybody could be a computer user and have no experience with using a CLI. It's staggering that there are computer users who've never written a program before (and the idea of non- computer nerds wanting to use computers is odd, too). When I was young, we had no OS (beyond a disc loader), we had to create our own programs (usually on pen and paper, first). And I find it impossible to believe the idea that someone could create software solely using GUI. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:59:45 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
