[kwlug-disc] What's the best desktop distribution?

[Raul Suarez]

The fact that the current solutions do not cover all cases or all applications do not diminish their comparative value. 

This branching thread started with the "killer application" statement.

I don't consider updating software a "killer application" as regular users do not care if their software is up to date as long as it does not break.

Raul Suarez

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--- On Thu, 2/4/10, john at netdirect.ca <john at netdirect.ca> wrote:

> From: john at netdirect.ca <john at netdirect.ca>
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] What's the best desktop distribution?
> To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Received: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 4:57 PM
> kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org
> wrote on 02/04/2010 02:07:46 PM:
> >
> > Why can't somebody write code that will automatically
> register
> > RubyGems and Drupal modules into APT's databases, so
> that running
> > apt-get upgrade will inform me (and allow me to
> upgrade) those
> > packages when there are fixes? There are already lots
> of reasonable
> > packaging systems out there. Why can't they all just
> get along?
> 
> We need some kind of meta-package manager that is modular.
> Right now it 
> would open the door for handling CPAN, Pear, Drupal and
> other modular 
> applications; but in the future it would help in the
> transition to new and 
> better package managers of the future.
> 
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