Posted by: Joseph Cooper
on November 04, 2005 01:03 AM
Generic application installations?
What generic application installations?
The LSB does not define anything for graphical software or practically anything useful. You can't make a gtk program LSB compliant because gtk isn't even in the LSB.
You know that Linux binary compatability is hell... Period.
Anyway, it explained the system for compiling and installing things. It's a closed network.
Besides, you can install things manually from source anyway, you just use --prefix to put it in the right place.
Now, find me a useful program that's a) Easy to install from a binary and b) Not already included in most distributions.
and I'll accept that you may have a point.
Otherwise, I'm tired of people who say things to the effect of, "Don't come up with an easy way to install software, cause it might break the retro system contrived in the 60s that's a pain in the ass and isn't applicable to desktops."
Getting stuck on stupid like that is the first step towards sucking.
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Re:And does not meet standards
Posted by: Joseph Cooper on November 04, 2005 01:03 AMWhat generic application installations?
The LSB does not define anything for graphical software or practically anything useful. You can't make a gtk program LSB compliant because gtk isn't even in the LSB.
You know that Linux binary compatability is hell... Period.
Anyway, it explained the system for compiling and installing things. It's a closed network.
Besides, you can install things manually from source anyway, you just use --prefix to put it in the right place.
Now, find me a useful program that's
a) Easy to install from a binary
and
b) Not already included in most distributions.
and I'll accept that you may have a point.
Otherwise, I'm tired of people who say things to the effect of, "Don't come up with an easy way to install software, cause it might break the retro system contrived in the 60s that's a pain in the ass and isn't applicable to desktops."
Getting stuck on stupid like that is the first step towards sucking.
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