[Info-vax] VAXStation 3100

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-01-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 1/20/2019 2:47 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2019-01-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> I used to be pretty impressed by that. But I no longer like
>>> that model.
>>>
>>> It does not scale well. It works great for 10-25 products. It does
>>> not work well for hundreds or thousands of products.
>> 
>> Which is why on Linux, you have a layer on top of yum.
>
> Not really. You can get a GUI, but it does not really change
> anything.
>

It does if your target audience is not only highly technical computer
experts but also more general purpose users.

If you were looking at webpages instead of packages to install,
it would be like the difference between trying to extract information
by reading the HTML source code versus having a web browser render
the information in the HTML file in a easily readable format.

yum technically does all this, but browsing for packages when you
are looking for something to solve a specific problem is a _lot_ more
viable when you have an organised list of packages you can browse
through organised by groups, especially when you are not a highly
technical computer expert.

Simon.

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