Re: Simplifying package installation.

[bob cs csoft net]

Well, I have used alien about 10 times, it it has worked every time. In
the situation where it dosnt work, provide a dialog to the user saying "I
can not convert this package to a native format. Please try to get a
<insert package management name> of the program."
Also, we could work on alien a bit and get working better if need be.

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Adrian Hosey wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Jeffrey W. Bizzaro wrote:
>: 
>: > Yes, a personal system for installing packages would be good, but then
>: > again, rpm is only available on some systems.
>: 
>: I would bet RPM is easier to port to various UNIXes than GNOME is ;-)
> 
> RPM only performs optimally if the entire system is checked into the RPM
> database. The database needs to know about  everything on the system so it
> can get the dependencies right.
> 
> The much talked about "meta-installer" seems like the better way, except
> Havoc asserts it can't be done correctly: "...the problem it tries to
> solve is computationally intractable and requires human judgment." (he was
> referring to Alien specfically here.)
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> 	- A
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