Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] autopackage

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Charles Moir wrote:

> Phil said
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> > We can't expect end-users to fiddle around doing that sort of 
> > thing, can we? I thought the point was to create a friendly 
> > installation method...
> >    
>
> I agree. This is terrible. It's scarcely believable that you can't have
> a reliable or user-friendly way to install software on Linux.
>
> Neil if this is the best that exists, then I'm afraid it's not looking
> good.
>
> Charles
>  
Linux has chosen security over user-convience (exactly how many Windows 
viruses are spread by users clicking on an executable of unknown 
origin). I think that this is absoultly the best trade-off, I'd even 
argue that native packages shouldn't be installed by default on double 
click.

   Luke