GNOME-PackageKit packaging

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sun Dec 5 12:51:33 UTC 2010


Le samedi 04 décembre 2010 à 15:53 +0100, Julian Andres Klode a écrit : 
> > > It is that bad. In squeeze we have software-center, update-notifier,
> > > update-manger and synaptic, with no less than 4 FUCKING ICONS in the
> > > administration menu, all about installing or upgrading software. 4 icons
> > > is 3 icons too many.
> > Agree.
> I do not agree here. Instead of creating one bloated application, it is
> much better to create multiple small ones.

You are right, but these multiple small ones should be consistent in
terms of backends, and not overlapping in terms of functionality.

Currently we are closer to “4 monster applications” than to “1 monster”
or “4 small”.

Cheers,
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