Installation Wizard in Yumex

[Tim Lauridsen]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:41 -0400, sean wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:14:22 +0200
>> Tim Lauridsen <tla-ml at rasmil.dk> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I just want to code a easy way to install things, not try to break any 
>>> patent, i will not include anything illegal into yumex, but people 
>>> located i place where software patents don't exist, can make a wizard 
>>> plugin to install the stuff hosted in places like livna or freshrpms.
>>> I same way as yum and rpm can be used to installed patent releated 
>>> stuff, but it is not the purpose of the application.
>>>       
>> It's already possible for a user to click-install a rpm that adds 
>> many repo entries without the need for a wizard.  After that 
>> calling up yumex to install whatever packages are desired is easy.
>>     
>
> What you want is the package install metafile thingy I recommended in
> the long painful ESR thread. Just a text file with a list of packages to
> pull in. Give it an extension and a mime type, and associate it so you
> can click on one in a web browser and have it open in yumex/pirut. Then
> with two clicks you can install whatever. Something like this:
>
> [enablerepo]
> livna
>
> [install]
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
> kmod-nvidia
>
> Or maybe reduce it to a single click:
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> releasepkg=http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
> gpgkey=http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
>
> [enablerepo]
> livna
>
> [install]
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
> kmod-nvidia
>   
It was something like that i was thinking of.

Tim
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