On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:41:15PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > I don't know which packages and libraries I'm going to need tomorrow. > > > > > > You never need to explicitly ask for libraries unless you are a > > > developer. yum will find them. Really? yum install vmd? yum install gamess? yum install gromacs? yum install namd? yum install mmtk? yum install openbabel? Funny, yum finds jack. > > And for your users that *are* developers??? > > They *know* what they need. You're engaging in wishful thinking. I'm not a developer, yet I fix bugs and build things from source when it's not in the depositories. I don't have the time to resolve the dependencies manually, hence I need a system where almost everything is already there. There's no sharp boundary between users and developers in FLOSSland. Get used to it. You're still not getting it. I'm a yet another user asking for an option which used to be there. Don't tell me what I need. I know far better what I need that you do. I don't claim to speak for you, either. If developers don't care enough to occasionally send someone to skim the list archives for user-reported design flaws and improvement suggestions I have no trouble with that. I have several alternative distros and, yes, proprietary systems to turn to. The usage pattern comes and goes. FC5 is reasonably close to a useful system as RatHed goes, but it's still a far shot to Win XP or OS X. The UI being hokey and slow is the largest culprit -- I'm hanging in for GL hardware acceleration. Maybe it will be enough, maybe I need a faster CPU. Long-term, kick out X and give us something rendering as cleanly as ClearType, and it's getting close to an ideal system. Maybe another 5-10 years, and we'll be there. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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