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The Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, and Mageia developers attended a conference last week in which they tried to find a way to "make software (un) installation less cumbersome". Remember our discussion about the art of installing programs on Linux? |
I wonder why all the distros duplicate their work. Sometimes they do it justifiably; others, it seems that they choose different paths only for the sake of doing something themselves. We should fix this. Collaboration between the different distros is not the most common today, and that is probably something we need to fix. To do so, a very important cultural change is necessary.
- Vincent Untz
Development of a unified method for software installation is apparently underway, which will use the Ubuntu Software Center as a graphical interface. Richard Hughes says that the Ubuntu Software Center is going to be ported to PackageKit very soon (in a few weeks nothing more) and describes in su Blog the progress of the project.
Here is the video presenting the project summary:
Source: WebUpd8
wow !! I love the blog, I always find very interesting topics.
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Finally!
How awful. Distributions that have the worst package managers join. At least this will make it more universal. Hopefully they improve and follow the KISS philosophy more.
Do you know Diego Saravia's project, in which it is intended to do something similar with the package installation issue? This is the project page http://www.sumapack.org It would be very good to give it more diffusion, it is always good.
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Long live free software.
A great advance for potential users, who do not have to know certain things when switching to Linux (most only want a browser and a word processor). For those of us who are more advanced, we will always have the traditional method.
And collaborating between distros seems to me . positive! 😀
Unifying does not always give the best format, remember that in the VCR the VHS triumphed over the best Betamax and the even better Pgillips V2000, although betamax pro is the only one that persists.
It is one thing to unify the packaging leaving deb or rpm as the default in addition to the sources to compile and another the package managers.
Now, the graphical interface of the Ubuntu software center seems very good to me as long as the real package managers (yum, sinaptyc and others) continue to be behind, it would not be bad if they were not dependent on the distribution and could be chosen, for example have an Ubuntu with pacman.
Ubuntu with pacman ... upa ... I liked it! 🙂
Cheers! Paul.
If that happened Ubuntu would win more than integers on the issue of packages, it is a firecracker to have to fix the issue when a package is broken (I imagine it will depend on which one, but experience has made me fear them). issue of using the software center, it does not seem such a good idea, it lacks a lot of way. And being able to discover an app that you need out there is particularly difficult for me, it happens to me more or less the same as with the Android Market. Also, it is necessary to simplify it for the user, but make it a Next Next Accept Finish… that's what Windows is for, right? .
That these distros join as Michael Zamot has already commented above is scary what may come out because it is not that the issue of the packages of these distros is a strong point precisely, with the exception of the best of Fedora, which I have read It has interesting points, such as the "Incremental" update (if I remember correctly what it was called). which only downloaded what had been changed in the package instead of the entire package, significantly reducing the download of updates, very useful for downloading updates from Libreoffice or KDE for example. What if I find it curious and hopeful is that they finally want to unify the issue of packages, after so many years giving people the rod about it, but what I don't like so much is that only the most commercial distros are the participants in this, leaving others like Arch, whose idea of packages with Pacman could have simplified things a bit out of the picture. Fedora that comes from Red Hat, Ubuntu and Suse, companies with commercial interests, and Mageia could be left half as it is, due to being a recent fork of Mandriva, and Debian, without being a company, intends to compete in the market commercial and is one with great weight in the matter because many distros are based on it, and therefore the changes made in it will have a cascading effect on the others. I think this collaboration is well half since it could have gotten much more if more distros had participated,