On 4/28/07, Praveen A pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
2007/4/27, Antony FM antonyfm@gmail.com:
But cant we solve this problem by using apt-get or yum.
We have already solved the problem, but what we are missing is the awareness. Once people start realising that doing things differently necessarily that bad.
Apt-get and yum uses internet,rt... It all started when we argue on need to use Linux. This is one of the areas where i get stuck.. What will general public do if they do not have an access to internet. M$ has succeeded wonderfully in this part. Almost all installations come with all the required files. I am not talking about the installations from within the CD provided. But an outside package.
Mahesh, can you tell us the exact issue you came across? like which
package you were installing and which all dependencies you had to resolve manually ...
I always use the net.. So didnt have much tough time yet... :)
shouldnt
something like that rather be a step we should introduce people to instead of downloading whatever dependencies etc by themselves, which we think necessary.
There is two issues here
- internet access
we could solve that by providing the whole dvds 2) yum doesn't have a CD mode (I keep hearing that they are working on it). Any Fedora users here? Can you verify if the latest version support installing packages from a cdrom? If not we need to make it work like the way apt works. Any volunteers? Mahesh?
Sure.. i will check about this.. But, as mentioned above, that is not the exact problem. Why cant a separate installation like that of a modem driver, come with all the libraries and other dependency packages ready. If its already installed, ok,fine, forget it; but else, its a great asset. Atleast we wont have to go to net.. But i do see a big stupidity in my suggetion. At times the dependency tree may also point to the base packages.. well, we dont need to provide an entire Linux installation set, just tyo install a single package either!!!! :) Perhaps some work has to be done. And a standard be developed so that anyone developing a separate package, pack the installation in a particular style that the general public is not affected much...
Anyways thats my opinion. But then im a noob, so cant say much.
every one is a noob in something or the other, so don't mind.
Thanks!!! :)
Cheers
Praveen
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Mahesh M