Re: using the panel to uninstall packages.

[Eduardo Silva <jobezone yahoo com>]

With debian there is gnome-apt and console-apt which
are still a bit buggy but provide pretty frontends to
install/uninstall any package, upgrade through the
net, etc. and then there's allways dselect, and the
comand line.

Eduardo
--- Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 09:40:30AM -0800, Miles Lane
> wrote:
> > Andrew Post wrote:
> > > 
> > > How is an RPM or DEB package different from your
> self-extracting
> > > installation program?
> > 
> > The difference is that RPM and DEB package
> management does the
> > installation, but doesn't provide a GUI interface
> that facilitates
> > the configuration of the installation and the
> program in one pass.
> > That's what most installation processes do,
> whether you are installing
> > an OS or a program.
> 
>   RPM don't need/doesn't provide any user level
> customization
> except the very unfrequent case of relocatable
> package. Installing
> is one command, deleteing is one command, no UI is
> really needed
> for the installation per se. Now locating RPMs and
> finding ways to
> fire up multiple install/upgrades is another matter.
> Check gnorpm
> or rpmfind for ideas.
>   This *is* one pass, unless you have dependancies
> problems.
> 
> 
> Daniel
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