Re: Some things GNOME really needs

[Stephen Rust <steve tp org>]

> Who is the target audience? Newbies?
> 

The install wizard itself would be for newbies, because it would pop up
graphical dialogs to click through to install the package.  However
-setting up- the wizard to actually work and be activated for a particular
software package, would be up to the package developer, or package
maintainer.  

> I don't get the point. Why should newbies make the rpms when they can
> download and install them with gnorpm ???

It wouldn't be the newbies making the rpms.  It would be the package
maintainer making the rpms + install-wizard support, so that when someone
downloaded the rpm, it would contain this added support, and automatically
pop up and start the wizard going.

This isn't like an enhancement for gnorpm.  Gnorpm is a package manager,
its not a wizard that automatically runs when you click on this new file
format.  Its very powerful for use installing sets of packages, seeing
what you have installed, etc, uninstalling.  Looking at your whole system
as a whole, adding or removing packages to the whole system

The install wizard could be attached to one package, do the quick/simple
install, and then if you later wanted to see what was installed on your
system, you'd fire up gnorpm and see the whole system layout.

Steve