[haiku-development] Re: Haiku, Inc. in Contempt of Its Community

  • From: Jonathan Beatty <easyegoism@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:49:21 +0000

Absurd argument. I'm not a developer of Linux, although I use it all the
time, and I put scripts and binaries wherever I please quite frequently.
"Contempt of community" indeed.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 9:46 AM Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Jim Saxton <black.belt.jimmy@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Using this tree structure will increased the support time needed by
>> new users. It will devrease the adoption rate for haiku when it
>> reaches r1.
>>
>
> On the contrary: the end users (who aren't developers) should not even
> know about this.
>
>
>> All the stuff in ~/config/ is placed there automatically from .hpkg
>> files, but the stuff in the longer ( read more difficult ) path,
>> ~/config/non-packaged/,  is placed there manually by the user. This
>> goes against the whole culture of BeOS and Haiku.
>>
>
> Why would a non-developer be placing stuff there manually in the first
> place?
>
>
>> The idea that a bin directory is only for developers is completely
>> wrong. If Haiku is to be a Desktop Operating System, then it must
>> cater to and empower Desktop users, and not just developers.
>>
>
> Right. But I fail to see why end-users will be installing software
> manually, and not using one of the three options (HPKG, SoftwareValet .pkg,
> or install-anywhere .zip.)
>
> -Augustin
>
>

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