On 6/1/05, Mike Hearn <mike@xxxxxxx> wrote: > - Packages are contained entirely within a relocatable directory, > which has a magic marker so the finder treats it as a file > > - Packages have no dependencies outside the operating system. They > can embed libraries within themselves easily. Yep its always fun having 23 different versions of gtk installed, one for each gtk based app you want to run. All with a different patch level... with no clear way to update any of them. > - There is no auto update system. Apple also provide a traditional > Installer service, which some things use. a lack of update notification. Oh yeah.. thats absolutely wonderful. Let's take for example something based on gaim... you know something like... http://www.adiumx.com Now gaim is actively development and like all networked software its going to have issues.... http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ Users of adiumx, who rely on mac osx's installer have no way of knowing that a new adiumx which incorporates a new libgaim to fix vulnerabilities is available unless they proactively watch for it. Extrapolate that out to 'all' applications including network facing services.. and that's a horrible position place users in. I don't think the complete lack of an update mechanism is an equitable trade-off at all. > - Nearly every app is packaged in this way. Mac users never have to > compile from source or wait while an app [update] is packaged. So no one uses fink anymore to get applications? I guess i should go tell them to close the project down. -jef"i think its time for someone to build their own distro using the packaging paradigm they like the best"spaleta -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
