Re: Keep or remove software-center?

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:59:52AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Bryan Quigley > wrote: > > I'd say we should remove it, especially because we really don't want > > anyone stumbling on to using it at this point. > Some people (not me)

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

JMZ schreef op 10-10-2016 11:58: The vast majority of consumer boxes run Windows because of Microsoft's bundling deal with the manufacturers. It's nothing really to do with Windows performance or ease of use (both of which are poor). It's just that Mr./Ms. Everyday User doesn't really know

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

amon schreef op 10-10-2016 15:53: Since the topic seems to be mounting of devices from user space... 1) You can use sshfs to mount pretty much any directory, anywhere to which you have password access on any mount point for which you have privs. I used to use it a lot. Works great. I

Re: Keep or remove software-center?

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:16:06AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I believe software-center has these features that gnome-software does not: [...] > 2. Supports paid apps The store side of this is due to be dropped RSN. Developers of paid apps were informed of this a while ago and told that they'd

Re: Keep or remove software-center?

Jeremy Bicha [2016-10-10 10:59 -0400]: > Some people (not me) do use software-center intentionally and I feel > it's a freeze break to remove functionality people "depend on", 3 days > before final release. Therefore, I propose that the freeze exception > process be followed if someone thinks it's

Re: Keep or remove software-center?

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Bryan Quigley wrote: > I'd say we should remove it, especially because we really don't want > anyone stumbling on to using it at this point. Some people (not me) do use software-center intentionally and I feel it's a freeze break to

Re: Keep or remove software-center?

Hello Mario, mario.limoncie...@dell.com [2016-10-10 14:05 +]: > We never actually got a good setup working for PowerPC. We wanted to, > but realistically the number of people that could benefit from a PPC media > experience is ~2. > Dropping PPC sounds fine by me. Thanks for confirming. I

Re: Keep or remove software-center?

I'd say we should remove it, especially because we really don't want anyone stumbling on to using it at this point. $ reverse-depends src:software-center Reverse-Recommends == * mythbuntu-desktop [powerpc] (for software-center) - looks like an old depends as mythbuntu doesn't

Re: Keep or remove software-center?

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I'd vote for removing it as soon as possible from Zazzy Zorilla. There are a > couple of revdeps and revrecs and it's not worth chasing down any unintended > fallout this close to the Yakkety release. Yes, let's not remove

RE: Keep or remove software-center?

Hi Martin, > -Original Message- > From: Martin Pitt [mailto:martin.p...@ubuntu.com] > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 9:01 AM > To: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Cc: Limonciello, Mario > Subject: Re: Keep or remove software-center? > > Barry Warsaw

Re: Keep or remove software-center?

Barry Warsaw [2016-10-10 9:38 -0400]: > I'd vote for removing it as soon as possible from Zazzy Zorilla. There are a > couple of revdeps and revrecs and it's not worth chasing down any unintended > fallout this close to the Yakkety release. | Reverse-Recommends | == | *

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

Since the topic seems to be mounting of devices from user space... 1) You can use sshfs to mount pretty much any directory, anywhere to which you have password access on any mount point for which you have privs. I used to use it a lot. Works great. 2) I would love a feature in which I

Re: Keep or remove software-center?

On Oct 10, 2016, at 03:15 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: >I just noticed that we still have software-center in yakkety. It >hasn't been maintained for several cycles, we never found anyone who >wanted to port it to Python 3, the desktop team moved to >gnome-software a while ago, and it isn't shipped on

Keep or remove software-center?

Hello all, I just noticed that we still have software-center in yakkety. It hasn't been maintained for several cycles, we never found anyone who wanted to port it to Python 3, the desktop team moved to gnome-software a while ago, and it isn't shipped on any image/flavor. Is there still some

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

The vast majority of consumer boxes run Windows because of Microsoft's bundling deal with the manufacturers. It's nothing really to do with Windows performance or ease of use (both of which are poor). It's just that Mr./Ms. Everyday User doesn't really know much about computers, plugs the