Re: GNOME Install Wizard?

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

james-gnome@tainted.org writes:

> You should never need to install a system with --force or --nodeps
> (or most of the --ignore flags), unless you *REALLY* know what's
> going on.

If RPM worked all the time, that would be great.  Until then, it's
necessary once in a while to force.  (Ie, to fix tetex after the
upgrade.  8^(


> Having said all that, I believe RPM needs two things added to it:
> 
> Pre-install and post-install scripts:

Has them already.  However, they're non-interactive.  I believe some
option for interactivity should be added.  (It shouldn't be hard to
develop a scripting language for installs that can handle interactive,
non-interactive, on text or X.)

> 2. Packaged RPM's

This would be nice.

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