Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

please, dont go off-topic :)

Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

Why the stuff that goes on with package managers wasn't just regular regular installers running in unattended mode?

Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

This one-man whine fest is going to go in circles forever. It is like explaining to a small child, and they repeatedly ask why after each answer. Eventually you have to say 'because it just f'ing does'

Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

Many. For a start, "unattended mode" is hardly standarised; you'll quickly find that implementing a package manager over random third party installers quickly requires human intervention -- as the many "win-apt"-like projects found (which tried to implement "windows" package managers).

Either way I do agree with clasificado. I didn't get your point here.

Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

They can all standardize the packaging stuff, why not the installer system?



@jflatt: indeed we've been around in a few aspects, but i've been learning a lot with what some people say here (also a few things make lots of sense once they've been pointed out for me, not necessarily new information, but presented in a way that makes things fit together in my head)

Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

It would require all third party vendors playing the same game, which is nearly impossible in the Windows world, and would take 5 years at best (think how many Windows software is still not using MSI, which is 8 years old).

And I still don't get your point.

Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

I mean incorporate a standalone installer in the packaging system, for mass installation it would work just like a plain package, but when desired would have all the options one would expect on a decent installer

edit: and would work with different packaging systems etc, even possible to install without one as well

Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

Main reason is the one I stated on an earlier post: few people if any would use it.

The current trend is the exact opposite; that is: to move to question-less packages. See Microsoft Installer, iPhone apps, etc.

Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

So basicly, until someone makes an specialized solution for the N900, we're pretty much screwed? :(



I was hoping this thread wouldn't end with "Well, dung happens" :(

Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
 

And that's something I wanted to hear, just to then be able to ask: what's the problem you just experienced that triggered this discussion? Can we concentrate on fixing _that_ package instead of the world?

Don't you realise that if such package was fixed, you WOULDN'T need the option you're asking for, at all?