Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be listed in software center

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Sun Jan 26 18:19:36 UTC 2014


Le dimanche 26 janvier 2014 à 18:14 +0100, Heiko Adams a écrit :
> Am Sonntag, den 26.01.2014, 12:01 -0500 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> > Hi
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:57 AM, drago01 wrote:
> >         
> >         No this isn't an issue at all. No one is saying that non gui
> >         apps are
> >         useless or should be removed.
> >         The point is that gui installer installs gui apps. If you want
> >         to
> >         install a command line tool whats wrong with
> >         using the command line for that? If you don't know how to use
> >         the
> >         command line there is no point in installing
> >         it in the first place.
> > 
> > 
> > I can use yum just fine but I don't find it convenient to go to the
> > gui for gui apps and then remember to go use yum to install command
> > line apps.  
> > 
> Following this logic users have to use yum, dnf, yumex oder
> gnome-packagekit-installer to install i.e. additional GUI-Themes or
> mouse-cursors because they are no apps and for that reason not listed in
> gnome-software, right? If yes, that's IMHO absolute bullshit!

It would make more sense to install them directly from the tool that set
the mouse cursors, or the theme. Why switch to a different tool ( ie, a
software installer ) to install something that is not a software ?

-- 
Michael Scherer



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