On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 02:59 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > I don't think windows users want to see a crapton of meaningless > libraries in their add/remove dialog. I sure don't. I don't even want to > see them in Fedora... A couple of releases ago, Mandriva implemented a filter in rpmdrake (the graphical package management tool) that shows only packages with a GUI (basically, anything with an entry in the menus), and made it the default view. After enabling Kat by default somewhere back around 2006.0, that was probably the second most unpopular change *ever*. Ever since then it's been one of the #1 'gotchas' on the forums. Sadly, people often wind up having to mess with 'system' packages to get what they want to do done, it seems... Having said that, Ubuntu has a slightly different approach to the same problem - it has a lobotomized, Windows-style 'Add / Remove Programs' application, and then it has synaptic for the full-fat stuff. I don't know what user reaction to that has been, I don't follow the U community very closely, but it's an alternative. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
