Why don't more *nix dev's...

[mick at pauldotcom.com (Michael Douglas)]

But... you're kind of speaking in favor of package managers.  On my
debian system I just need to do the following:

sudo apt-get install {program that I want}

That's *easy*, and I can have it update and stay current too.

Rollup scripts are nice, they do beat the doing it by hand...  but I
prefer a good package.

- Mick

PS: what version of *nix are you using?


On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Richard Baker
<richardebaker at pathsecurity.com> wrote:
> I see the point for package managers... but wouldn't it be "better" or speed
> adoption if the packages self-managed and then is no reason to have the .deb
> vs. .rpm vs. ect... normal users dont want to remember how to un-tar...
> windows and mac make it simple... click here to install... drag to the
> applications folder... maybe im crazy
> -REB
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/12/5 Richard Baker <richardebaker at pathsecurity.com>:
> > > Why don't more *nix dev's...
> > > Write rolled up install scripts... like the installer for VMware
> > > Player...
> > > One .sh file that has all the needed elements rolled up in it uuencoded
> > > directly in the script...
> > > I know *nix users like to "have control" but doesn't it make sense??> or
> > > am
> > > I off base...
> > > Sanity Check??
> >
> > Isn't that what distributions and their package managers are for?
> >
> > Robin
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