[haiku-development] Re: Package manager
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:18:57 +0200 CEST
Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> For larger bundles however, I think there is no way
> around displaying a progress bar indicating the
> unpacking process. However, the latter resembles
> installing the bundle, which we wanted to avoid.
My personal beef with installers is not the copying of
files to a single location (similar enough to unzipping,
which can be seen as reasonably atomic)
but common peeves:
- binary installers which can't be inspected pre-install
- file-spread / mixing of packages / in system folder
- running of scripts
- unwanted system integration
- dysfunctional uninstalls.
I don't have a problem with the idea or impression of
installation, as long as its user-initiated. (I'd rather
not have bundles integrate with the system silently
say on download or when mounting removable media).
/Jonas.
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