Re: RPM and Corba/GNOME

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

Hello Marc, Alex,

> I was interested in doing this, but I wanted to wait for the file
> manager to be released to see if it could be done as some sort of
> mode of the file manager.  

It can not be implemented directly as a virtual file system in the
the file manager, as some operations on packages do not really map
well to the vfs interface (upgrade, rebuild, dependecies).

   In any case the file manager would provide some kind of
browse-capability for the available packages, but any further
operations would be handled by an external program (actions can be
trivially added for the file system as an external program).  So,
starting work on the program that handles all of those extra features
makes sense.

   We would be able to integrate the other program into the file
manager later.  Starting work on the rpm interface definetly makes
sense and I would advocate this.

Cheers,
Miguel.

(btw, nice to see Alex on the Gnome list :-).