On 28 January 2014 18:43, Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski(a)nist.gov> wrote:
There are two separate issues here: 'abandonment', and
'GUIness'. As to the
latter, I think it's a mistake to have a primary application installation
tool that only deals with GUI apps, because it relegates text-based tools,
such as 'units', to a second-class status of being hard to find and to
install.
That's not the tool we've designed and built. We've built a GUI
application installer, not a package installer.
Similarly, at least some apps with inactive upstream are fine the
way they are and do not deserve to be locked up in the attic.
Right, that's fine. The Fedora packager can create one in 2 minutes
(yes!) and ship it in the package.
Richard.