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Curated package repositories are just a band-aid on the disaster. They improve things by centralizing the ridiculous and unnecessary cost of dealing with the me

• snogglethorpe 14y ago
  Eh? The OP here was lauding the ipad as some sort of "solution" to the "mess," but Apple's app-store is pretty much the purest and most absurdly restricted example of a "curated package repository" around! Debian's (and Ubuntu's, etc) package repositories are a breath of freedom and flexibility by comparison...
  • flatline3 14y ago
    Curated Linux package repositories are all about making painful things slightly less painful, including: - Managing complex dependency graphs. There are often incompatible changes in the nodes of the dependency graph that require wholesale updating of every node linked to the changed one. - Managing complex installation. As per UNIX standards, the files which comprise a single software package are spread across the file system in such a way that it's effectively impossible to clean them up without a package manager properly tracking them. Apple's "curated package repository" is something else entirely.
  • mikecane 14y ago
    >>>The OP here was lauding the ipad as some sort of "solution" to the "mess," Note I was not lauding the iPad. I was using it as an example of the kind of Click & Go experience people want. I could have very well said Windows machines vs Linux boxes, because most Windows programs contain everything you need to go without searching for "dependencies."