Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Xen]

Ralf Mardorf schreef op 05-10-2016 14:11:
> On 05 Oct 2016, at 12:09, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> 
>> [snip] Main problems in Linux have not been solved and now big
>> solutions are built on top of it, and the consequence is that those
>> high level solutions must be as shabby as the low level underneath,
>> but now a 1000 fold worse, because you cannot get around it anymore.
> 
>> 
> 
>> [snip]  gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service  [snip]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> what are your main problems?

That is not relevant here but it has nothing to do with gvfs for me.

I was talking about the same things I have already mentioned: on Windows 
it is very easy to put some application on some usb stick and run it 
from there, but this is hardly possible even in Linux. These are basic 
problems created by bad design of systems that already have solutions 
but they are not getting implemented and users suffer site-wide as a 
consequence...

At least, well, it is the same topic as snaps right?

These apps usually cannot be made portable because they have fixed links 
to libraries.

e.g. when I compile Calligra I have to specify the path it will run in 
in advance even before compiling (using configure).

If I change the location of the /binary/ (including its libs) (that I 
just compiled) it will no longer run!!

So for that program the locations were already fixed prior to 
compilation even!!!

This is the same problem sphere as snaps.

As what snaps could be a solution to (if done..., you know...).

The complete dependences on the complete FHS has always been a problem.


>> Can you explain exactly what you think you are responding to and
>> what my sentiment would have been to you? I just feel you might be
>> responding to something I have not said.
>> 
>> My apologies if that is the case for not being very clear.
> 
> For example:
> 
> "Why is there not a user fstab in which the user can specify mounts he
> or  she wants to use?"

I mean what you think I intend by saying that, not my verbatim words (I 
remember them).

Because your response seems to want to discuss a great many things that 
might not even be a problem.