man, 23.05.2005 kl. 13.50 skrev Naheem Zaffar: > From: Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: User Friendly Install > To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core > <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <20050523032434.GA8134@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:59:50AM +0100, Naheem Zaffar wrote: > >> I do not know if Nautilus can have scriptable folders, or yum > install from > >> a local folder, so these could be issues that need to be worked on. > > >Recent versions of yum can indeed install from local files (and solve > >dependencies using any enabled repositories), so something like what > >you'reproposing might be workable. I'm not convinced it's the best > way, but it > >wouldn't be terribly hard. > > Its not the most elegant solution, but it solves the problem at hand > without forcing package providers to provide a complete web > architecture. > > The problem is allowing people to install packages without going into > 'DLL Hell'. The other solutions are far more elegant, but also far > more work, as they provide a complete new architecture. > > Instead of having an install folder, you can just use yum to install > instead of rpm when you (right)click on an rpm to install. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ That is also a workable solution, but it doesn't solve two problems, which frontend reading from a special metadata file doesn't solve: - Autmatic updates - Wich of the 10 rpm's openoffice is built up of do i need? I do also not see the the great security benefit of having such a folder instead of a metadata file - with the metadata file, you download this file, open it, type in the root password, and ansver to a couple of standard questions. Install. Done. Now we only need a solution to search and delete old software that is no longer needed :) Kyrre -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
