[haiku-development] Re: software organization/installation
- From: Mauro de Wit <maurodewit@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:17:54 +0100
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> Why do you need to know where the software is installed? What are your
> use-cases for that?
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> Best regards,
> -Stephan
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Well, maybe there is no use case for it and it is useless from a user
perspective.
But the thing I liked most of BeOS was the fact that I had an overview of
what is going on and I had the feeling I controlled the OS. I controlled
which drivers it loaded, were the apps were stored and so on. If I want to
know which apps are installed, I would have a look at the apps folder et
voila. This transparency gave me the feeling I was on top of it.
Of course I see the benefits of the apt system on linux; on my ubuntu server
it is a blessing being able to install all software trough the repos. But on
my Ubuntu desktop, I have other expectations and I want to kwow exactly what
is going on in there.
Mauro
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