On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 13:09 -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Florian Müllner <fmuellner@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > I guess the main obstacle here is that there isn't really a > good > criterion which is as clear-cut as "installs a (non-NoDisplay) > .desktop file" => "this is a user-visible gui application" for > gui > applications - mutt certainly is a user application, sshd > clearly is > not, zsh ... maybe? > > > Why do you want to differentiate between Mutt and sshd? If a user > wants to install a specific piece of software, they search for it > within a gui and if it matches, they install it and move on. If you > really need some way to differentiate, you can have some form of > tagging via fedora tagger or appdata which you can include in more > than just gui packages. > > When I want some software, say Epiphany and Mutt, if I can only use > the installer for the Epiphany but I have to use yum for Mutt, I > rather just use yum for both where I don't have to switch between two > different ways of getting it. I don't mind the focus on gui > applications but leaving out command line tools altogether forces me > to think about whether say htop would be considered a application by > the installer or not which is not the level I want to differentiate at > all. When I search for something within the installer and it returns > nothing, is it because there is genuinely nothing that matches what I > want within the repositories or is the installer just excluding it > based on implementation level details like desktop files and appdata? > How would I know? It is just too complex. Honestly, I don't think Software is really aimed at your use case, and you may as well just keep using yum. It's meant to be a cool way to find neat software, not a comprehensive package catalog. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
