A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux [LWN.net]

A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux

Posted Aug 17, 2009 15:51 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux by Cyberax
Parent article: A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux

This is exactly the wrong way around: The GUI requires the daemon, not the other way.

Besides, what use is a bare "suggestion" to a plain user? If they know their way around the system, they'll know what they need (or can live without), if they don't, they will have to find out somehow.

The slur that "most RPM distributions were a junkyard of broken packages" was never true. What happened is that there are lots of RPM-based distributions around, and thus all sort of people tried to force-install packages from one on the other, with the obvious ensuing breakage. What saved .deb from this wasn't any technical superiority of the package format, but the simple fact that there was essentially only one distribution using it. If a distribution is a junkyard of broken packages or not is a distribution engineering issue, not remotely a package-management-format problem.

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A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux

Posted Aug 17, 2009 16:07 UTC (Mon) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]

"This is exactly the wrong way around: The GUI requires the daemon, not the other way."

I find it very helpful when I install a package to have apt suggest packages that might be useful along with a package I am installing. It is a huge advantage to not have to always research things, but to simply be able to say, sure, "I'll try that too"; or "no thanks", I don't need support for "ldap, X...". It is not a dependency, just a suggestion.

And not all GUIs require their daemon anyway, the daemon might be running on some other host(s).