Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Martin Alderson]

No. RedHat or Fedora does not use apt-get by default. They use yum.
apt-get is optional and I believe is going to be taken out in the
future.

The problem is that you'd have to have a .deb for debian based systems
AND a .rpm for the others. This is nowhere near acceptable in a world
where games are 4GB+ and need all content copied accross.

Therefore, you'd have to write your own propietary installation script
and copy the files 'the old fashioned way' with an off the shelf
installer tool.

This would really require an autorun to make it easier.


On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:38:43 -0600, Jerry Haltom
<jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com> wrote:
> Maybe Redhat should use apt-get... oh wait, they do.
> 
> Maybe SuSE should use apt-get?
> 
> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 02:53 +0000, Martin Alderson wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:38:14 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:14:10PM +0000, Martin Alderson wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:43:02 +0100, Martin Pitt
> > > > <martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > > > This is the fault of the game vendor. If they provide an apt source,
> > > > > then package installation can't be easier.
> > > >
> > > > WTF? Sorry, but an apt source is incredibly difficult. How does this
> > > > work?
> > >
> > > Click on a link in your web browser, an application launches with
> > > information about the source and asks you whether you want to add it.
> > Ok, that sounds acceptable, but it's highly unlikley apt-get would
> > become the standard for this, especially since Fedora + RedHat uses
> > yum, and I'm not sure what SuSE/NLD use... we need something much more
> > cross-distro than this.
> > 
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