[bt-devel] Some thoughts...

Brook Humphrey bt-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 04 Feb 2004 07:45:29 -0800


Brad wrote:

> And I think that I can safely say that very soon installation 
> procedures like the one above will have no place in a modern Linux 
> distribution.
>
> Is this food for thought, or do you feel that with Linux we will 
> always try and force users to use the CIF and try and find the missing 
> software components on the WWW by themselves?
>
> Regards,
> Brad


I'm not sure you know this but mandrkae has not needed anything hard for 
quite some time. They have been using urpmi for ages wich autoconfigures 
dependecies for you. You just select the package you want and everything 
else is done for you. Not sure how much easier that can get.

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