[Registry] Re: LinuxRegistry in Freedesktop & KDE

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday 18 April 2004 20:08, Daniel M. Lambea wrote:

[...]

>   I agree with Avi. Linux still have no good software installer for
> applications, probably due to the heterogeneity of system
> configurations. Asking the user to "please, set permission to xxxx", and
> also asking for pathnames to locate things is not what I would define as
> "usability" and "user-friendlyness".

You are using LFS, aren't you?
I have never heard that any of the usual package managers (dpkg, rpm, emerge) 
ever ask the user to change file persmissions or insert paths.
Our packagers do better work than that and compared to the work of most 
Windows installer preparers.

Cheers,
Kevin
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