<div>From: Matthew Miller <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mattdm@mattdm.org">mattdm@mattdm.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: User Friendly Install<br>To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
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<span></span> 20050523032434.GA8134@jadzia.bu.edu</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:59:50AM +0100, Naheem Zaffar wrote:<br>>> I do not know if Nautilus can have scriptable folders, or yum install from
<br>>> a local folder, so these could be issues that need to be worked on.<br><br>>Recent versions of yum can indeed install from local files (and solve<br>>dependencies using any enabled repositories), so something like what >you'reproposing might be workable. I'm not convinced it's the best way, but it
<br>>wouldn't be terribly hard.</div>
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<div>Its not the most elegant solution, but it solves the problem at hand without forcing package providers to provide a complete web architecture.</div>
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<div>The problem is allowing people to install packages without going into 'DLL Hell'. The other solutions are far more elegant, but also far more work, as they provide a complete new architecture.</div>
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<div>Instead of having an install folder, you can just use yum to install instead of rpm when you (right)click on an rpm to install.</div>
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