On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xenof0nt <xenof0nt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Sorry there is no other alternative. The only solution is Shaman2 but >> currently is in Alpha stage. That means it is highly unstable and dangerous >> for your system. >> Arch will never provide a graphical tool for pacman. >> So if you can't live with this, then change to another distro >> > > Never say never. > Just curious, where does that come from ? > Why couldn't a sufficiently motivated developer write a GUI frontend > to libalpm good enough to get it packaged ? > This actually happened with shaman, it was packaged in community by > the main makepkg developer, Allan ! > Yea. Whats wrong with a GUI frontend? People will use pacman or the frontend- whichever they prefer. I know arch's wants to keep it simple but providing a good frontend in the repos isnt a bad idea.
