[Info-vax] VAXStation 3100

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/20/2019 4:00 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

The GUI make its easier to use for most users.

But my point was not about how to use it but about what it does.

I don't like to see application stuff splattered out over a half
dozen directories mixed with with other applications.

I want a single directory tree per application.

And I don't see the GUI help with that.

Arne