What happened to pup?

Jeff Johnson n3npq at nc.rr.com
Sun May 22 17:31:35 UTC 2005


Alan Cox wrote:

>On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 06:29:51PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
>  
>
>>>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
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Something like that is presented at the bottom of the mail, but then in
>>the form as a "userfriendly web synaptic".
>>    
>>
>
>If you are going to do the scripts its better to have an XML descriptor for
>repositories and a helper tool for moz/firefox that knows that media type.
>You can then click and subscribe to repositories which is *not* the same thing
>as the windows click/download model because 
>
>-	Repositories have keys
>-	You know *where* a package comes from
>-	You get updates automagically
>  
>

There's more to package management than choosing a representation for 
metadata.

But clearly the windows installer model is the strongest surviving paradigm.

Reboot! Reboot! Reboot!

A bit sad, really.

73 de Jeff




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