On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 09:11, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Dear user,
As we all know you're dumb and you can not learn to use a package
manager ever. To ease your pain we've decided not to inflict you the
so-called "dependency hell" and provide you an autonomous application.
Just click on its auto-update menu and it will download everything you
need, we swear it.
*bzzt* It has *nothing* to do with users being "dumb." *nothing* It
has to do with the fact the user doesn't care, doesn't need to care, and
shouldn't be forced to care. I don't have a fricken clue how a jet
engine works, don't really care how it works, but that doesn't mean I'm
not allowed to fly on a plane. Indeed, the usage of an airplane is
completely independent of knowing how the engine works, including the
pilots.
Computers aren't any different. There is no reason a user should *have*
to understand the inner workings of it. That doesn't mean they *can't*
know it, only that they don't need to.
Don't confuse those two ideas.
To help you keep up with updates we've thoughtfully provided a
"time to
update" popup that will remind you every few weeks you need to keep up
with us. To avoid any misunderstanding we designed it to be completely
different from the swarm of update popups you deal with every day.
Red Hat/Fedora offers the up2date applet, which does just this, and is a
good thing. ^,^
--
Sean Middleditch <elanthis(a)awesomeplay.com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.