RE: Some things GNOME really needs

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

How about just associate a rpm with gnorpm. If you double click on a rpm, it
runs gnorpm on it, and gnorpm asks you whether you want to install it,
upgrade it, or, if installed, to erase it...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: a [mailto:al764984@mail.mty.itesm.mx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 6:03 PM
> To: James Henstridge; Adrian Hosey
> Subject: RE: Some things GNOME really needs
> 
> 
> Gnorpm is the coolest thing ive seen when it comes to 
> installing under any
> Unix-like system, still, the normal newbie user is not 
> acostumed to Gnome
> and, for him,  it should be very easy to install anything.
> 
> Perhaps an intermediate solution is in order, rpm has the 
> advantage of being
> hands free so the tarball idea is somehow not-as-neat.... 
> (come on, a front
> end that controled all the things that can go wrong in the
> configure-make-install cycle would be huge)
> 
> So maybe an interactive wizard IN gnorpm -maybe just an 
> interface with less
> options for the newbie, just to get him started- or an interactive
> walkthrough would do the trick.
> 
> In less words:
>     gnorpm is nice and easy but it needs some more work on 
> the interface.
> From my point of view its one of the more important apps that 
> Gnome can have
> 'cause its like a greeting card. The first thing a user does after
> installing his OS is start looking for some other apps to install.
> 
> 
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