Re: Prob with nvidia and X11 on pure64bit
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:26:50AM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote:
> Well, Microsoft tried to exterminate the installer for many of their
> products and instead release them under the Windows umbrella and look
> what happened. They got sued and had to offer an option to remove
> Internet Explorer's icon from the desktop. :-)
If they had written a unified installer that made SURE a proper list of
files and changes made during the install was in place which could
ensure a clean uninstall, then they would have done something useful.
Then they should have told everyone to just deliver a program as
something that installer could install and uninstall and put up huge
warning signs whenever an executable was run that wasn't in the list
of the installer's database (since it would be either a not properly
installed program, or a 3rd party installer program).
That is what dpkg does to some extent. Anyone can go make a .deb using
the dpkg tools and it will install and uninstall properly (as long as
they don't do anything stupid in the preinst/postinst/prerm/postrm
files).
The debian nvidia packages work very well and do the right thing (for a
debian system).
Len Sorensen
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