Re: Softwares sugestion

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Tim Moore wrote:
> 
> In that case, it makes more sense to use a package converter like Alien.
> If Solaris has its own package management system, you should use that,
> instead of creating a new one.
> 
> My point, basically, is that making a tarball installation manager is
> pretty much pointless. If you want to use tarballs, than you probably want
> to do all of your unpacking, compiling, installation and uninstallation by
> hand. If you don't want to do all that by hand, why not just use dpkg or
> RPM (given Todd's testimony that dpkg works cross-platform)?

How practical would it be to make a generic GNOME front-end UI
for package management, and then wire it to different
rpm/dpkg/etc backends?  Just a thought....

John