On 01/30/2012 03:38 PM, Mike Pinkerton wrote:
You might not want to encourage the "app" model, but that boat already
left the dock. For Linux distros to be players on portables and
desktops, they need to recognize that there is an appetite among the
user base for "app" type programs that are easy to install
(drag-and-drop). By bundling most of their dependencies, "app" type
programs become one way to create a cross-distro "app" marketplace.
If we end up with separate "app" marketplaces for Fedora, SUSE,
Debian, Ubuntu, et alios, they are all going to languish. On the
other hand, a single "app" marketplace for mainstream Linux distros
might well prosper.
Unifying package management across distros would a Good Thing (tm). Once
there's a unified interface to the package management system, you can
envision things like app marketplaces that simply instruct the
distribution to install that distribution's package of a particular app.
Clicking "Firefox" would do "yum install firefox" on fedora and "apt-get
install firefox" on Ubuntu. Let us do everything in our power to make
this happen!
Two things that are not a good thing
- Installing software outside of the package management system (instead,
get the package included in fedora or rpmfusion)
- Statically linked libraries or 'bundled' libraries (See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries )
As for propietary software, there's nothing the open source community
can do to influence the design decisions of proprietary software vendors.
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