And lo, upon Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:42:45PM -0400, Nic Thomas spaketh thusly:
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 15:15, Gabriel Phoenix wrote:
> > My mindset is not a Linux geek with Internet access but granny who
> > hardly knows what a program is and where people are still discovering
> > the telephone alongside a computer.
> >
> > The ultimate ideal would be one file one-click (or one command) install.
> > If added to the core functionality the GUIs will quickly adopt it.
> >
> >
> haven't you ever heard of urpmi? currently the distro I'm using Mandrake
> 8.2 all I have to do is click on rpm files and it installs the software
> after entering your root password....seems easy enough to me.
>
I've not (yet) become acquanted with urpmi, and it may do exactly what
I'm talking about, but IMO rather than physically bundling "inner-packages",
better would be for the "outer-package" to have a list of virtual dependancies
that are filled by what would be the inner-packages but are in this case
seperate packages. Using tool that can automatically locate, download
and upgrade/install all dependancies, once could easily install a suite
of packages from a single root package. For instance, how cool
would it be to do 'mycommand -Uvh gnome_full-2.0.noarch.rpm' and have all
the necessary gnome packages located and installed for you (assuming no
complications with the installation-- see my earilier rant about that)?
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Aaron Gaudio prothontar @ tarnation.dyndns.org
http://tarnation.dyndns.org/~aaron
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