Sriram Narayanan wrote: > All: > > Something that we could consider adding to Belenix would be what I > call "install hints" that the shell in Ubuntu provides. > > For e.g., in Ubuntu, if I were to try to run "screen" and if it were > not installed already but present as part of a package called > "screen-utils", then the Ubuntu bash shell would display the message > similar to "screen is not installed yet. Run apt-get install > screen-utils, and then screen". > > I just had an IM conversation with Moinak, and he felt that power > users would not like this feature. > > I think, however, that if we could selectively turn off this help, > then we could keep power users as well as newcomers happy. > > What do you think ? > > -- Sriram > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > Hmm.. interesting!
I mean if something isn't installed in Linux (distro generic) it just says "Not found" from the shell. However if you then went to the package manager and say did apt-get install and then didn't result anything - you could just check the cache by running: apt-cache search software which would then say it was like Gnome DE for example would give you: ubuntu-desktop as result. Alternatively yum on the RH line of distros has something similar where you can just do yum search or whatever, then issue yum install. I am not sure really with that as I do understand that if the package is combined in a group package like my gnome and ubuntu-desktop example then it maybe useful for in-experienced users (myself included even perhaps). Mixed feelings but how about we get a demo working and see where that takes us??? To get a draft drawn up and implemented, can be as buggy as hell no probs but just something to see in action! That's my view! :-) Kaya
