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  • Deprecated function: Return type of DateObject::__wakeup() should either be compatible with DateTime::__wakeup(): void, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in include_once() (line 158 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/sites/all/modules/date/date_api/date_api.module).
  • Deprecated function: Return type of DateObject::format($format, $force = false) should either be compatible with DateTime::format(string $format): string, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in include_once() (line 158 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/sites/all/modules/date/date_api/date_api.module).
  • Deprecated function: Return type of DateObject::setTimezone($tz, $force = false) should either be compatible with DateTime::setTimezone(DateTimeZone $timezone): DateTime, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in include_once() (line 158 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/sites/all/modules/date/date_api/date_api.module).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).
  • Deprecated function: html_entity_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in decode_entities() (line 463 of /home/sites/site100029201/web/rolandtapken.de/htdocs/includes/unicode.inc).

Philosophy

A generic meta packaging format for linux distributions?

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

I'm doing some end-user support for Linux desktops (family and friends). From a chat with my mother and observation of our trainee I've noticed that what's normal users making the most head pains are the different packaging formats. For example, when you want to download Google Chrome Linux users are confronted with four different options: