Rod Diversity driven by well-informed intention is good. Fragmentation caused by barriers or simply entropy is not.
That captures my thoughts very well. Rod Whitby wrote: > Stroller wrote: >> On 13 Oct 2008, at 08:13, Rod Whitby wrote: >>> ... >>> The state of affairs *should* be that you just get the application >>> name >>> from opkg.org, and then type "opkg install <name>" on whatever >>> distribution you are running (or select the application name from the >>> GUI installer application on the device) and it installs flawlessly >>> from >>> the official feeds for that distribution. >> That requires exiting the web-browser & using the CLI. Aren't people >> asking for immediate installation through the "GUI" of the browser? > > OK, add "... or click on the link to run the normal GUI application > installer which already points to the official repositories" to the above. > > The point is not how convenient it is, since you can easily fix that in > one place. The point is how disparate and fragmented the community > resources become if you don't continuously fight against entropy. > > Diversity driven by well-informed intention is good. > Fragmentation caused by barriers or simply entropy is not. > > -- Rod > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community