On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:11 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 17:27 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 09/07/2010 05:16 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > Linux has traditionally shown the user packages to update and install, > > > which is great for administrators, but sucks hard for end users. How > > > many times have you been prompted with an update list that asks you to > > > decide whether to update something you have no idea about[1]? > > > > > > Mo illustrated[2] a few days ago about how confusing the updater is > > > and I agree with her; and it's mostly my fault. Lists of unlocalized > > > generic packages are so 1990's, and compared with the Ubuntu Software > > > Center or the Android App-store we look like amateurs. > > > > Thoughts on making the software center less distro specific? Couldn't > > the UI be grafted on top of the PK api? > > okay - I'll bite - why do we want to make it less distro-specific? What > does it get us? It means we have to deal with a bunch of > Lowest-common-denominator issues and it means a looser coupling of the > tools we have. > > It is legit to write tools for fedora that are FOR fedora. Why not do > that? Because sharing infrastructure and tools is raising the lowest common denominator and benefits everybody ? Common good, etc... That being said, yes, doing things in less distro-specific ways does involve compromise, and I'm not very optimistic about getting any of that for the software center... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
