Janne Karhunen wrote:
RPM is a powerful tool for system administrator, but as ironic as it is, end user is much happier with windows installer :/.
Or CNR in Linspire... ;p I really think dependency hell could be avoided if the Open source community could begin to consolidate a few things. Take bugzilla for instance. Why hasn't anyone come up with the idea of making bugs easily available across distros and up and downstream searchable/redirectable? This way if a bug is filed in the wrong place we could redirect the bug to the right place without need for filing the bug again. Also if the bug is reported in different places or indeed is filed in several distros by different users we could more easily see where we should put our focus. Or if this is a up or downstream issue. If we transfer this kind of thinking to dependency issues, it would probably start solving itself in a short manner of time. Another Idea I'm thinking of is making the package managers do the dependency searches for you. Instead of letting a newbie search the web for a package he is missing. download it, install it and find that he is missing yet another package. The RPM could search the web for the user and come back with a dialog like this: "You are missing package x. We can't find this package in your repos. But this package [package name X], found at www.example.org seems to be what you are missing. Should YAST download this package and install it for you? YES / NO NOTE: This may not be safe to do... blah blah blah. But if you have configured Apparmor correctly you should be reasonably protected against system failure." Just my 2 cents. -- Regards Kenneth Aar --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
