Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding...
by arendtio on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:25AM
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Just out of curiosity: Which Linux distributions come without a package manager?
The only one I am aware of is LFS (Linux From Scratch), which is more like a manual on how to build your own distribution than a distribution like others. Anything more mainstream?
Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding...
by vageli on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:23AM
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Slackware has no package manager.
Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding...
by toyg on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:07PM
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Uh, that depends on your definition of a package manager. Slack has had utilities to install and uninstall packages for ages, if i remember correctly, and in the most recent release it might even have something that works with remote repos.
But yes, I agree that a pkgmgr is not necessarily a prerequisite in the Linux world, plenty of smaller distros don’t have it.
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Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding...
by huffmsa on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:05AM
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Further, regardless of the rationale, the point still stands that Apple has never really played nicely with the rest of the tech world.
But when you're the big fish like they are, a lot of people feel like you're morally obligated to take a contributory, if not directorial role in steering the industry. And Apple doesn't do that.
Assuming you're referring to Lightning, that predates USB-C, and the reason why Apple hasn't replaced it yet is probably because of agreements with accessory makers over how long they are going to remain using that connector.
> Two button mouse with a scroll wheel? How about a 1 button mouse that you click with two fingers.
I believe macOS originally didn't have the concept of right click, but rather ctrl-click. Eventually they supported both, and mice sold by Apple have supported right click for almost 10 years.
> Linux? Sure, but it's called MacOsx and doesn't have a native package manager.
Linux (the kernel) doesn't have a package manager, and many distributions don't have a package manager either. The primary use of macOS is not the command line, and developers are better served by third party package managers/repositories, with a cadence independent of the OS release lifecycle. (Just like on Ubuntu, where you frequently need to add PPAs for anything newer/different from what's available upstream)