Re: No viewer for RPM files

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

José Romildo Malaquias <romildo uber com br> writes:
> The application that used to work with RPM files, letting one to
> look inside it and operate on their contents is gmc, not distributed
> anymore with Red Hat Linux. Remains the Midnight Commander (mc), a very
> good text based file manager capable of that. In fact, gmc is a
> like a GUI version of mc.

Well gmc isn't really an option here...

> 
> Another application that can do that is krusader
> (http://krusader.sf.net), a KDE application (that can be run without
> running the KDE desktop).

That might be interesting.

> > > Also, I thought GnomeVFS was supposed to be able to browse archive
> > > files by now, but it doesn't look like the functionality is there in
> > > the desktop. Comments?
> > 
> > It's never been implemented.
> 
> I hope it will be implemented some day. Is there anybody
> working on this?

Not that I know of. But it would be great if someone did, because lots
of people request the feature.

Havoc