On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:43:09PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > There are two separate issues here: 'abandonment', and 'GUIness'. As to > the latter, I think it's a mistake to have a primary application > installation tool that only deals with GUI apps, because it relegates > text-based tools, such as 'units', to a second-class status of being hard > to find and to install. Similarly, at least some apps with inactive > upstream are fine the way they are and do not deserve to be locked up in > the attic.
I'm not sure I'm convinced. If someone is on the command line, isn't it easiest to use a command-line tool to install those kinds of things? If you're really interested in this, though, maybe come up with a mockup for how command-line applications could be presented in the GUI installer in a way that wouldn't confuse users? -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mat...@fedoraproject.org> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
