Re: Feature request

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:11:55PM +0200, Karel Demeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to this list, and I didn't read all the archives yet :| I just
> joined to give a feature request.  I'm not a coder, I don't know if it's
> possible, but I'm a gnome-user and I think following would be super;
> 
> Could it be possible to have a "Software installer" in the G-s-t ? 

 You should look at Debian apt tool (don't know if you're using it, of
 course)

> It
> could be some frontend-backend thing.  So, you have one frontend GUI
> that looks the same for all distro's/package-managers and a backend per
> package-manager.  Plus, for all distros there should be a GUI to "./
> configure && make && make install" that keeps the source for de-
> installation.

 The problem with this is that you usually have to deal with the little
 glitches that each distro have (library versions installed, where some
 files go, ...)

 Debian packagers don't spend our time running only make; make install
 ;-)

-- 
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
   [email protected]

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