Re: Browsing archives

[A-J Ulvestad <aj nlc no>]

> as for rpms, Is it really sane to search through an rpm file. I think it
> would be great if nautilus had a drag and drop, drop dead simple
> interface for installing rpms though. However from what i've heard the
> rpm api changes too often for this to be done easily.(alex and all the
> other redhat guys please correct me if i'm wrong).
Yes, the ability to browse RPMs are indeed useful. The people in the
company I work for (Nixia Norway/Knowledge Network UK) that package RPMs
use this feature in mc quite often.

Support for install(upgrade) should indeed be supported, but this has
been discussed earlier :-)


Andreas-Johann Ulvestad
Norwegian Linux Community
Techie, Nixia division
Knowledge Network Norway / UK