Re: Softwares sugestion

[Tim Moore <tmoore tembel org>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, John R Sheets wrote:

> 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....

Probably not too hard. KDE has one.

Tim