<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Rahul Sundaram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:metherid@gmail.com" target="_blank">metherid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Christian Schaller <span dir="ltr"></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
The core principle of the installer is that it operates on an application level and not a package level. The current way it determines if something is an application<br>
is by looking for a .desktop file. So in theory you could put a bitchx.desktop file into the bitchx package and it would appear in the installer. That said I don't<br>
think it is generally a bad idea if command line/terminal applications are installed from the command line, but there is no hard policy blocking such applications from making themselves available in the installer.<br>
<span></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>It might be a good idea to rethink this strategy. I don't have a problem with using yum but I am not going to fire up the installer just for gui packages and fall back to command line to install command line applications. It is a confusing approach. Perhaps instead of ignoring them entirely, you can just sort the results or having a secondary view "Click here for command line applications that match your search results" etc can be considered. <br>
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<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Rahul<br></div><div> </div></font></span></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">A thought as we move into the future: if we continue with the installer, end users may one day forget about the yum command and all the awesome packages out there; they may forget about the command line altogether.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Richard</div></div>