Re: RPM and Corba/GNOME

[Marc Ewing <marc redhat com>]

Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx> writes:
> > 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).

But could it be implemented as a set of small programs that are
registered as actions for RPM file types?

>    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.

OK, that 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.

I'm still working on the help stuff, so I'll leave Alex to have
at it!  Alex, if you need anyone to bounce RPM ideas off of just
let me know.  I've got plenty of thoughts about how it should all
work.

-Marc