Re: Gnome/Linux Application Installer

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery hilfy ece cmu edu>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812231312180.7064-100000@zoll.albany.eypae.com>, Gle
ef writes:
+-----
| talking about except the annoying advertising screens.  I don't know about
| dpkg, but RPM also allows for preinstall scripts so an annoying commercial
| package could conceivably run a script to put up an advertising window.
| Please shoot them if they do this, though.
+--->8

Could, but shouldn't; automated installers/updaters such as autorpm don't like 
it, quite aside from what people like myself think about it.  (Bad enough that 
autorpm itself spits out lots of noise in its postinstall....)

| Instead of trying to change the way the entire Unix world works, we should
| focus on making GNOME work properly no matter how its installed, and
| support the more sane of the packaging formats.
+--->8

Agreed.  RPM isn't going to be used here, nor dpkg/apt; and I seriously doubt 
that anyone but us cares about syncset.  :-)

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