Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.freeware,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:13:31 -0700 Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <210920151816339085%nospam@nospam.invalid> <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <5tmdnY_rbLLTfY7LnZ2dnUU7-U-dnZ2d@supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net PR1IDfTzn5tGEf93PthnEAAh8TR+kEZDp7hgBlM2XWlrM8tHdS Cancel-Lock: sha1:0u+6nuvT8IgmqbyxArLUEMe6ekM= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Thread-Index: AdEAc3hM1KXuStYTp0ySto73NmkdyQ== Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:82042 alt.comp.freeware:245213 alt.hacker:8887 alt.privacy.anon-server:46049 comp.os.linux.advocacy:325085 On 10/6/15, 12:59 PM, in article d7inhhF555uU1@mid.individual.net, "Jolly Roger" wrote: > Snit wrote: >> On 10/6/15, 12:20 PM, in article d7il7mF4i5eU1@mid.individual.net, "Jolly >> Roger" wrote: >> >>> Peter Köhlmann wrote: >>>> Jolly Roger wrote: >>>> >>>>> Snit wrote: >>>>>> On 10/6/15, 11:44 AM, in article d7ij57F3vsdU1@mid.individual.net, "Jolly >>>>>> Roger" wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Want to delete an >>>>>>>>> app? Drag it to the trash. Want to delete an app's preferences? Drag >>>>>>>>> them to the trash. It's that simple on OS X. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thats not even remotely "handling dependencies" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> A key part of managing dependencies is reducing them so they aren't a >>>>>>> problem from the start. >>>>>> >>>>>> I asked him to give an example of a problem I can re-create. So far he >>>>>> has nothing. >>>>> >>>>> There is no dependency problem to solve on OS X. >>>>> >>>> >>>> That claim was made by MS too. And then DLL hell got worse by the week >>> >>> Show us one of these problems then. Should be easy since you have a Mac in >>> front of you. >> >> Contrary to what Peter said, you can install X11... then you can get >> dependency problems! > > Exactly. Open source Linux software comes with such dependencies. Mac > software doesn't. And for open source software there are several package > managers to choose from with built in dependency management. Right. You can go out of your way to create problems which are hard to avoid on Linux. Some try to make this seem like they are equally prone to a problem. -- * OS X / Linux: What is a file? * Mint MATE Trash, Panel, Menu: * Mint KDE working with folders: * Mint KDE creating files: * Mint KDE help: * Mint KDE general navigation: * Mint KDE bugs or Easter eggs? * Easy on OS X / Hard on Linux: * OS / Word Processor Comparison: