On Saturday 20 January 2001 14:58, you wrote:
> Hello
>
> I think it would be nice to have a feature
> put into a future mandrake version,
> capable of being disabled of course,
> that would, when rpm or an app cood not find
> a library, it would do a search the entire filesystem
> until it found one that would make the app work,
> or if it were not on the system it would then
> access the net and search for it automatically,
> asking the user if when it found it, if it was the
> right one, if the user did not know it would then
> try downloading and installing several different
> oens until it worked, and if desired, a go-along-with
> me type tutorial could also be ran at the time to
> teach newer users about the internal processes
> of a linux system, this feature and its subfeatures
> could all be disabled at the user's request if they
> already knew what they were doing in the case
> that it would be useless to them.
>
> What about that?
There is such a feature unfortunately it is not available in an RPM based
ditro as of yet! (HINT HINT) That is apt-get and it is in a devolpemental
stage to run on rpm based distros. Currently it is a feature of Debian and
Storm Linux. That is the one feature I would love to see in Mandrake. I guess
urpmi is supposed to operate that way. I know if you enter a command such as,
$urpmi --auto rpmname.rpm it will check the config file for available sources
and ask for the appropriate media in the case of the install CD-roms and
install the required pkg as well as any depencies. I haven't done much with
it to date I may try to add a ftp url for an rpm I would like to install and
see what it does.
--
John W
