Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 20, 2004 01:50 PM
You missed his whole point. I mean if you install a distro, and then upgrade that distro's software anything works well. His frustration is with third party software. It is with things that don't belong with the distro. Debian doesn't fix the problem. Gentoo doesn't fix the problem. They only work for standard software. I agree with the user that it is unbelievable that RealPlayer wants to live in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/bin. It should be in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/opt. Most third party software packages do not work with native package formats, becuase there are too many of them. I work with a custom software package, and the developers need it to work on the maximum number of distributions, so they wrote a custom shell script for installation. That shouldn't have to be the case.
I realize that Debian people want everything to be free, and that Gentoo wants everything to be natively compiled, but the package that I have been dealing with has dependancies on commercial tool kits to do three-dimensional rendering, and there is no open source equivelent. Compilation by end users is not an option.
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Re:my distro upgrade process
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 20, 2004 01:50 PMMost third party software packages do not work with native package formats, becuase there are too many of them. I work with a custom software package, and the developers need it to work on the maximum number of distributions, so they wrote a custom shell script for installation. That shouldn't have to be the case.
I realize that Debian people want everything to be free, and that Gentoo wants everything to be natively compiled, but the package that I have been dealing with has dependancies on commercial tool kits to do three-dimensional rendering, and there is no open source equivelent. Compilation by end users is not an option.
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