Re: Confusing Linux download page

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 June 2010 00:07, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 15:58, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>> Only if you have such an app, and you have the required repository
>>> configured. If not, then it's a lot more complex to explain.
>>
>> Well, you and me clearly disagree on which is the easiest for the end
>> users, particularly in the long term. I'd be interested in hearing
>> what others think as well on this, so please chime in if you have an
>> opinion :-)
>>
>
> I think that if you're running Linux, and you have somehow got
> yourself into a situation where you don't have a functioning package
> management tool (apt/portage/whatever), then figuring out how to
> install postgres is going to be the least of your problems.

It's not about not having a functioning package management tool - it's
about there being a surprising number of users that don't care, can't
be bothered to learn, or can't figure out what packages to download
(remember, PostgreSQL consists of something like 5 - 10 different RPMs
on Redhat, and it's not clear to a newbie what each is). Those people
are the ones that take up webmaster time by asking for help, so the
strategy we settled on was to put the one-click packages at the top to
make it easy for them, and the distro-specific instructions further
down where they would be read by the people that could be bothered
read and figure out what they need for their specific native distro
packaging system.


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Dave Page
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