[haiku-development] Re: Package manager
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:38:41 +0200
On 2009-08-05 at 21:18:57 [+0200], Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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:
[...]
> - running of scripts
That's nothing a packagefs would avoid, though. Or how would you handle
creation of system users? Or how/when would SSH/SSL/... host keys be
generated? You can't necessarily do that on first start, at least not if
the program in question is not supposed to run with the required
permissions.
CU, Ingo
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