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Originally Posted by Philantrop
No, Kovid, you can blame distros (too old, too new, too incompetent) all you want but the core of the issues was, is and will always be this:
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calibre comes with its own bundled dependencies
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(Quoting yourself from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=256095) |
It is neither innovative nor weird for software to both provide its own precompiled binaries and support building from source. Please stop blaming software developers for their ignominious crime in doing so.
It is, as it turns out, neither ignominious nor a crime.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
And I am fast approaching the the point where I am just going to stop supporting Linux all together. It's not worth the hassle. Linux and its twelve users generate more problems than the other several million users put together. So tell me some more about how this is calibre's fault, PLEASE.
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Please -- before doing this, consider, instead, updating the linux installer to detect when it is being run on a fedora derivative and emitting a fatal error message:
"Fedora is a pox upon the open source landscape, continually defaces and destroys downstream software, and refuses to be compatible with anything anywhere. Then it goes ahead and breaks the software it packages itself, through a wide variety of insane decisions. Calibre does not officially support Fedora. Please report a bug to the fedora developers, or go use the undoubtedly misbegotten version of calibre which is distributed via rpm. See
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=357381 for more details."
This is absolutely a Fedora problem and giving up on Fedora is a reasonable approach to take. John Schember wrote about this a decade ago w.r.t. sigil as well (and then sigil apparently decided the correct solution was to be hostile to the entirety of linux, which is... a decision, certainly).
Seems like the correct solution is to give blame where blame is due, and leave it at that.