RE: Some things GNOME really needs

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Um, rpms have one design point that you are missing. rpms are designed to
install without any user intervention. Having an install wizard in the rpm
would be pointless... It would actually break rpm. rpms are designed to be
installed as simply as "rpm -i blar.rpm" and uninstalled by "rpm -e
blar.rpm". The whole prossess breaks down if you have to "rpm -i blar.rpm"
click, click, click, click.... It dosnt allow for autoupdates and stuff...
Besides, what more is nessissary to install some rpm then "rpm -U rpmname"
or alias that in gmc... No wizzard is nessisary.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Rust [mailto:steve@tp.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 9:24 AM
> To: Preben Randhol
> Subject: Re: Some things GNOME really needs
> 
> 
> > 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
> 
> 
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