Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 06:38:03AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
At the end-user level I think Debian has a logical flaw.
You are assuming all end-users are equal.
No. I was contrasting the generic end user such as myself to
the Debian developers.
The groups differ needs, desires, expertise and MOST
IMPORTANTLY _RESPONSIBILITIES_.
An end user takes responsibility for his own actions (not
all of them realize that) and his errors generally will
affect only himself.
A developer has a social contract with a wide audience a
safe and effective product. His errors not only can but WILL
affect many people.
It presumes that all software is always available in a repository
(be it FOSS/proprietary, trusted/untrusted, whatever distinction).
Correct, how do you expect Debian to know about software that isn't in a
repository?
I don't. There is no reason for them to do so.
Consider, my eldest nephew has been a independent contract
programmer for over 20 years. He knows much more about
software than I do. [My formal training was in hardware
design including those using vacuum tubes.] Why should he
not create a package I would find useful and send it to me
as a deb? Why would Debian know about it? Why wold they want
to? I would still want to be able to install it ;)
Yesterday I found a program (in beta) whose functional writeup was
interesting. In the latest revision a deb package was added to the
previously available formats. I downloaded the package with my
Windows machine (it was available at the instant).
Right, and you authenticated it how?
Essentially in the same manner as you do any time you walk
into a Mom & Pop restaurant in a strange city. You observe
it and make a judgement call.
I now have a deb
package on a flash drive which Debian can read but has no built-in
convenient method to install.
What is inconvenient with "dpkg -i doubtfulpackage.deb"
Nothing except that until about 4.5 hours ago I was not
aware of either it or gdebi ;/
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