Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932483AbZKDU16 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:27:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758153AbZKDU15 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:27:57 -0500 Received: from icculus.org ([67.106.77.212]:53958 "EHLO icculus.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758121AbZKDU15 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:27:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4AF1E3D0.7060609@icculus.org> Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:28:00 -0500 From: "Ryan C. Gordon" Organization: icculus.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikulas Patocka CC: Alan Cox , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: package managers [was: FatELF patches...] References: <1257103201.2865.6.camel@chumley> <20091102000147.424f104b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 16 > No, package managers are evil feature that suppresses third party software > and kills Linux success on desktop. There are merits and flaws, of course, but I'm going to take this moment to encourage everyone to not descend into a conversation about this on linux-kernel. My point with FatELF wasn't to start a conversation about package management at all, let alone on this mailing list. --ryan. -- 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/