RE: Gnome 2.2 suggestions

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:07, Ross Burton wrote:
> 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...
> 
that's exactly what libredcarpet (in GNOME CVS) does, which is to have a
wrapper for the underlying packaging system. And Red Carpet just uses
that to work on all supported platforms.

cheers