Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes: >> IIUC it would be "automatic" in that it launches say pirut to install >> the missing package, which would prompt you for your root password >> before continuing. > > But what if you are just a regular user who doesn't have the root password? > That pretty much limits the use of this feature to administrative programs > (which require root anyway). Otherwise users will end up with half-broken apps > and no way to fix them without administrator assistance, and admins of any > multi-user machine will hate it (when they install something, they expect the > dependencies to come with it, not to get a support request a few days later to > install XYZ for the feature UVW to work). > Half broken apps because of missing dependencies that are needed for "extra features" rather then "core functionality" is just bad programming/app design. It's either a requirement for the app as a whole or a requirement for a feature that the app can just disable/ignore during runtime. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
