Re: RPM and Corba/GNOME

[Max Watson <redline pdq net>]

At 03:38 PM 2/23/98 -0600, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
>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.

I would like to see a similar program for debian packages. Can this be in
one program with rpm, or is the difference between the two great enough to
require separate apps? I have never used rpm.

M.Watson redline@pdq.net