On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:19 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > 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... yah - I have firsthand experience the pains of doing things in less distro-specific ways. The repodata was done that way and all changes require an enormous amount of discussion and frequently never happen b/c of the discussion. It is sometimes excruciating. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
