On 06/06/10 at 06:30am, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > 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. It's been discussed before and rejected. If you want to know reasons and logic, search the forums or the MLs. No sense in beating a dead horse. --
