On 4/12/07, Laurent GUERBY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unable to install: some application packages required for the
installation are missing.
Given that's just some misconfigured/misdocumented third party repo/deb,
you can get those messages in any deb/apt based Linux current
distribution so that's quite unfair to the "app manager" application.
It doesn't matter what the technical cause is, the repository
situation is a mess. Debian and Ubuntu don't have this problem by
better centralising, delegating and testing their packages through a
single build system.
I worry that the Extras Repo is both too hard to upload to *and* too
unregulated. For example, instead of porting a library like libsoup
once, it's ported by Canola, it's ported for GPE etc. The end-user
then suffers the problems caused by this lack of co-ordination.
Yes, the original LWN article suggests it's the Application Manager's
fault, but getting that corrected to point out the chaotic situation
of an ever-expanding set of (potentially incompatible) repositories is
a minor difference in an otherwise valid point.
Cheers,
Andrew
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