Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus Goals

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Ed McKenzie wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:36:53AM -0400, mitch nuclear physics gatech edu wrote:
>
> > By updater I mean a app that retrieves new packages via the net. Nautilus
> > should not retrieve new packages via the net. It should be able to install
> > software that is on the harddrive though.
>
> What if the user downloads some (but not all) of the RPMS needed?
> IMO, a list of missing .so files and symbol names isn't really useful
> in figuring out exactly what versions of which packages are missing.
>
> If Nautilus is to install software at all, it should be less effort
> than gnorpm and friends.  I think dependency checking implies some
> kind of net connection and/or software catalog, since the user may not
> have all the needed packages.  On the other hand, if you're just
> installing software from your distro, the problem becomes _much_
> simpler.

It shouldn't do all this.  It's a file manager/desktop shell, not the 
solution to every problem under the sun.

The RPM installer should be a straightforward rpm -Uvh <packagename>. 
If there are unmet dependancies, it should search the current directory 
for additional RPMs to meet the dependancies, if none are found, it 
should fail.

-b

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