RE: Gnome 2.2 suggestions

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 04:35, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote:
> Thanks Jeff,
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> 
> Some of the package programs out there are pretty old and ugly. 
> Mandrake 9.0's Installer GUI is a prime example.  It is still based on
> GTK1 (as far as I know) and is basically butt ugly.  If you guys took
> the chance to unify package management into a single entity (i.e.
> distribution independant) it would move Linux forward as a desktop. 
> Take the best out of the distibution package management tools
> (embrace).  Unify and modify the code to a common easy to use user
> interface (extend).  Then when the package is complete, create some
> buzz around the community and commercial companies (excite) that a
> unified gnome-based installer is available for general consumption and
> can be used as part of a distributions offering.  Especially focus on
> the commercial companies because they need to have single reliable
> installer.

It is very difficult to make a distribution-independent packaging tool
-- how would it examine the package database? On RedHat it can use
librpm, on Debian it needs to use libapt...

Ross
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