El jue, 26-09-2002 a las 11:07, Ross Burton escribió: > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 04:35, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > > Thanks Jeff, > > > > Thanks for your comments. > > > > Some of the package programs out there are pretty old and ugly. > > Mandrake 9.0's Installer GUI is a prime example. It is still based on > > GTK1 (as far as I know) and is basically butt ugly. If you guys took > > the chance to unify package management into a single entity (i.e. > > distribution independant) it would move Linux forward as a desktop. > > Take the best out of the distibution package management tools > > (embrace). Unify and modify the code to a common easy to use user > > interface (extend). Then when the package is complete, create some > > buzz around the community and commercial companies (excite) that a > > unified gnome-based installer is available for general consumption and > > can be used as part of a distributions offering. Especially focus on > > the commercial companies because they need to have single reliable > > installer. > > It is very difficult to make a distribution-independent packaging tool > -- how would it examine the package database? On RedHat it can use > librpm, on Debian it needs to use libapt... > I think that the new redcarpet (and perhaps the old one too) is a distribution-independent tool as you define it... Cheers. > Ross > -- > Ross Burton mail: ross burtonini com > jabber: ross nerdfest org > www: http://www.burtonini.com./ > PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Carlos Perelló Marín mailto:carlos gnome-db org mailto:carlos perello hispalinux es http://www.gnome-db.org http://www.Hispalinux.es Valencia - Spain
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