Hi. This is something I suggested on IRC a few days ago, and was asked to drop onto this list. Basically what I'd like to see in Pup is a way to deal with a group of packages at once, distributed as one entity. The point is that the user should be able to download a single file from the web, double-click it in the file manager (and/or drag it somewhere) and have Pup handle the installation. This is how software is usually distributed on other platforms. The idea is to have an archive with metadata, let's say a .yar (for "yum archive"), which is basically a zip file with one or more rpm packages in the RPMS/ directory, and a file containing metadata with default selections and possibly a .repo file to import into the global repository list, to allow for automatic updates. The .yar mime-type is associated with Pup. A good example where this would've been useful is the newly released OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta. It was distributed as a tarball with rpms. Currently, there is no way to handle this situation short of unpacking and installing manually. system-config-packages does not handle more than one package at a time, and does not resolve deps against remote repositories. Adobe might for example package their suite as adobe-common, adobe-photoshop, adobe-acrobat etc, and if you order the "Adobe Photoshop for Linux" CD, your double click the .yar archive containing adobe-common and adobe-photoshop. Since you already have adobe-common installed from "Adobe Acrobat for Linux", you only install the adobe-ps subpackage. And Adobe might supply a .repo file (with http authentication!) for keeping your products up-to-date. This, together with a stable and well-defined package environment such as RHEL, would make the process of installing 3:rd party software on Linux a lot easier. What do you think? /Peter Backlund -- Fedora-config-list mailing list Fedora-config-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-config-list