Mattias Gaertner wrote: >> * have other customization options during the install. Not easily >> at least. I have seen a handful of .deb packages that prompt for >> a Yes/No question, but that's about it. Most prompted in a console >> window (ugly) and one or two prompted in a GTK2 dialog (no idea how). > > The frontend can be anything. Some GUIs shows graphical dialogs for > the questions.
Point is, are all package management systems equal in there features. Does all of them support showing readme, custom questions, GUI dialogs etc? > Other points: > deb/rpm/ports/... repositories have some advantages: > - mirrors > - databases of all installed files > - databases of all available files and packages > - automatic update of all packages > - automatic install of sets of packages And more points against repositories... * repositories are not meant for commercial software. At least I haven't seen any. And no the "meta" packages that simply install a script, that then has to use something like wget to download the actual commercial software doesn't cut it for us. eg: Microsoft Core Web Fonts .deb package. * You must have an internet connection (and a reasonably fast one at that). Realisticly, many South African internet user still use dial-up modems. * A full install of our flagship product is 8GB in size. I don't even want to download that with my 3G modem. My internet connection at home is capped at 500MB per month. Only this year are we switched to DVDs - before that we shipped our product on a CD set (+- 12 disks). Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus