On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Ryan Lerch  wrote:

The line was drawn in Software to define an "Application" as something that has a desktop file -- aka a GUI application. Although you could argue that mutt, vim, git etc are applications also but users are going to use them on a command line, so i think the assumption that was made was that those users would be comfortable using the command line to install them.

I have noted this before but this isn't a good assumption.  I am very comfortable using yum,dnf etc but I would prefer to use GNOME Software since I get the benefit of ratings and while I am using GNOME Software to install a bunch of apps, picking up git and mutt (or even graphical apps that don't ship with appdata etc) along the way is easier than mentally switching contexts depending on whether the app fits GNOME Software requirements to be listed.

Rahul