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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application?
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:46:09 -0600
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Date: 2013-02-27T18:46:09-06:00
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On 2/27/2013 6:00 PM, Björn Persson wrote:

>
> There's no need to reinvent wheels just to avoid libraries that might
> not be installed. The package manager will install the required
> libraries if they aren't already installed, so although nobody has the
> entire distribution installed you don't need to worry about that. (Each
> of the big distributions is built around a package manager, for example
> Yum or APT. Each package has a list of other packages that it depends
> on, and the package manager resolves the dependencies automatically.)
>

That is the problem when programmers think about delivering software.

They think everyone else in the world is also a programmer like them.
They live in a bubble.

Ok, so I made a program and I want to email it
to my grandmother's aunt to play a game on the computer.
My Aunt has no clue what is a package manager is. She just
knows how to click using a mouse.

So, you expect my grandmother's aunt to use a package manager to
go search for missing packages from the net. May be also patch
the kernel while she is at it and make sure the latest glibc
is there ofcourse. Ofcourse, when using APT she needs to know
which package to pick, since there are thousands there.

Yes. Sound like a winner idea. That is why Linux never made it
to the desktop and will never make it. I bet you 20 years from
now its market share on the desktop will remain where it is
today, at 1%.  (ps. I use Linux all day myself, along with
windows also, but I am a geek also).

All what normal users want is one icon to click on to run
a program.

Anything more is too complicated for the normal users.

--Nasser