Hi. On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:15:40AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 April 2019 09:02:13 Reco wrote: > > The *unofficial* one is the existence of "gnome-packagekit". The thing > > needs users, and this is one of the ways of getting them. > > I frankly don't care if it needs users. To get users, it has to work.
Quite the contrary. To get users it just needs to be written by a certain company. Three-letter acronym company, to be specific. > If it doesn't work at least as well as synaptic, it will never get the > users. "gnome-packagekit" touts itself as a "Graphical distribution neutral package manager for GNOME". There are other distributions where users don't have the alternative. But once again, Debian project choose to follow so called "industry leaders". > If thats not plain enough to the people making these descisions, tuff > luck. This stuff gets its users by working, and gnome has not > recently demonstrated that. Please be careful. There are GNOME users here, at this list. Someone might get offended :) > All I've seen in stretch is a roadblock to getting anything useful > done. This one is for the buster users. Stretch isn't affected. Reco