Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757161AbZKDQw3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:52:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756821AbZKDQw3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:52:29 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:55255 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756516AbZKDQw2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:52:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:54:07 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: "Ryan C. Gordon" , =?ISO-8859-14?B?TeVucyBSdWxs?= =?ISO-8859-14?B?Z+VyZA==?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: package managers [was: FatELF patches...] Message-ID: <20091104165407.1481bc29@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <1257103201.2865.6.camel@chumley> <20091102000147.424f104b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1110 Lines: 25 > - With Linux package managers, the user is stuck with the software and > version shipped by the distribution. If he wants to install anything > newer or older, it turns into black magic and the typical desktop user > (non-hacker) can't do it. In the rpm/yumworld that would be "yum downgrade" and "yum upgrade" for packages or whatever button on whatever gui wrapper you happen to have. And of course yum supports third party repositories so you can also deal with the updating problem which Windows tends not to do well for third party software. Installing it is the easy bit, keeping it current and secure is the fun bit. All pretty routine stuff and a lot of users add other repositories themselves: generally by having a package that adds the repository, so you just have one package to click on in a web browser and open, then off it all goes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/