What happened to pup?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Sun May 22 16:05:36 UTC 2005


Kyrre Ness Sjobak a écrit :

> Lets say Adobe wanted to make a really, really simple-to-use installer
> for their reader
...

ROFL

What you've described is the windows way and it's nothing but simple. In 
fact it's so convoluted no one will ever read all the screens you've 
described (it's nothing but a click ok pipeline - if you really think 
users process them just add one with the proceed button moved and we'll 
have massive user consternation)

The really, really simple-to-use installer is a web page that uses your 
browser id to suggest the right repo file to dump into /etc/yum.repos.d 
with a short example like :

su
wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe.repo url
yum install acrobat-reader
exit

(you can add a .repo gui handler if you like but it'll need to be as 
simple as these four lines)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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