On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:11 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 17:27 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 05:16 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Linux has traditionally shown the user packages to update and install,
> > which is great for administrators, but sucks hard for end users. How
> > many times have you been prompted with an update list that asks you to
> > decide whether to update something you have no idea about[1]?
> >
> > Mo illustrated[2] a few days ago about how confusing the updater is
> > and I agree with her; and it's mostly my fault. Lists of unlocalized
> > generic packages are so 1990's, and compared with the Ubuntu Software
> > Center or the Android App-store we look like amateurs.
>
> Thoughts on making the software center less distro specific? Couldn't
> the UI be grafted on top of the PK api?
okay - I'll bite - why do we want to make it less distro-specific? What
does it get us? It means we have to deal with a bunch of
Lowest-common-denominator issues and it means a looser coupling of the
tools we have.
It is legit to write tools for fedora that are FOR fedora. Why not do
that?
Because sharing infrastructure and tools is raising the lowest common
denominator and benefits everybody ? Common good, etc...
That being said, yes, doing things in less distro-specific ways does
involve compromise, and I'm not very optimistic about getting any of
that for the software center...