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apt-get works for system libraries but not really that well for high-level apps which have different requirements and release schedules, specially the less main

apt-get works for system libraries but not really that well for high-level apps which have different requirements and release schedules, specially the less mainstream ones. We also support Windows and OS X, which do not have anything like apt-get. In those cases we use regular installers or the OS X App Store

LaSombra 14y ago
Say what? Isn't Firefox a high-level application? What about LibreOffice? Or Apache HTTPD? Isn't the distro maintainers the ones who define the release schedules? Doesn't Fedora or SuSE, for example, release the newest versions for Firefox, KDE to the latest on their current distro for example? I think an Application Store for servers is something redundant, re-engineering the wheel. But that's my 2¢. EDIT: And I'm even talking about similar tools to tasksel.
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- ridruejo 14y ago
  Firefox and LibreOffice are desktop apps. Apache is a server. We are talking about server apps, in particular web applications. Anybody who has had to install a non-trivial Rails application like Gitlab, Discourse or Redmine, knows that pain.
- FooBarWidget 14y ago
  What happens if the distro maintainers are not doing a good job and keep lagging behind? Shouldn't developers themselves be able to take charge of the situation?
  - Nursie 14y ago
    They already can if they want to produce packages. This sounds like it may make that easier. I'd still prefer to use the ones built and maintained by the distro though.