On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:23:47 +0100, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: >Ralf Mardorf: >> It's not a bug of the package management, it's an user error. > >What is the likelihood of these people making the error?: >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts/Average%20users
"Average users are humans that you can found in the street. This is to say, usually they aren't computer technicians." Hi, humans need to learn the most simple things, e.g. to use forks and knives, without being a maker of forks and knives. Please recommend how thought-reading should be done by a package manager? Debian/Ubuntu already split optional dependencies. Some optional dependencies are recommended and others are suggested. This is not done by upstream of the software and user-centric distros such as Arch don't provide it. The default is to install recommended dependencies, but not suggested dependencies. There are different ways to change the default, one is to temporarily disable it by using apt-get with the "--no-install-recommends" option. Assumed the default would become to install no optional dependencies, then a lot of your averaged users will complain to get incomplete applications. Any idea how to solve this? Sure, autoremove could consider recommended dependencies as automatically installed, but likely already now some users complain that autoremove uninstalls software they still want to use. IOW what you consider as not being user-friendly is the lowest common denominator for your so called averaged user. It's not that way to fit to the needs of geeks. Regards, Ralf -- http://www.grundgesetz-gratis.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
