On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 13:09, Peter Backlund wrote:
A simple and intuitive front end for YUM and rpm. Never mind about the icon in the GNOME-menu. But if the Nautilus applications:/// cold make a front end for YUM and rpm, the new user wold find installing rpms easily. And a YUM repository cold be made as an RHN subscription.
Actually, I think SuSE has their update/install tool (yast) organized in a menu fashion, so that you're able to "browse" uninstalled, available applications and select for installation.
This could be mimiced in gnome-vfs (or kde io-slaves) below an icon "Installable packages", "Available software" or something like that, with rpm organized by rpm groups (Applications/Multimedia and so forth).
There's already a gnome-vfs module in development, nautilus-rpm, to do just this, using rpmdb:///.
A package would be prestented as Name (Description), and when double-clicked, a window showing the description and size would be showed. Two buttons, install and cancel, and an "advanced" tab showing file listing, dependencies etc.
Well?
/Peter
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