The ability to click on an application RPM in GMC or Nautlus and have it
run the program without installing .app style:
http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/macos-x-dp4/macos-x-dp4-2.html
I know it would help me keep organized if an application could be run with
all of it's contents stayed in one nice neat archived file and would
certainly make life much easier on newbies.
(Ooh this website has a linux application, click to download, click to run,
that app sucks, delete)
I've seen my wife do it, she downloads an RPM clicks it, clicks it,
installs it. Then when she decides she doesn't like whatever it is, she
deletes the RPM leaving me to wonder just how many times she's done it and
how many useless packages are floating around (rpm -qa | more)....
I understand it'll take a hack to make it work, but I'll deal with a slow
startup time.
-David Talbot
At 11:29 PM 5/25/00 +0200, you wrote:
>(I hope you do not get this twice on cooker)
>
>Hi, folks!
>
>What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on
>these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully!
>
>[ANNOUNCEMENT]
>
>We (Mandrakesoft) are starting internal discussions about future of
>our distributions NOW. We want you to take part in the process of
>improving our next distro.
>
>- NOW is a time to ask us whatever you want: tell us what you like, tell
>us what you hate, tell us what you dream of!
>- NOW is a time for you to influence the future company decisions - start
>thinking, and if you come up with a briliant idea, post it here.
>
>Starting NOW, I am going to stop sleeping, eating, or doing any other job
>which would interfere with currently most important task: Making sure we
>make the best decisions based on whatever input we can get.
>
>[RULES]
>
>* Basically everything you can think of is open for discussion, except
>question of including non-free software in the core of our distro, which
>is absolute NO-NO.
>
>* Listen to what other people have to say. Try keeping the signal/noise
>ratio as high as possible.
>
>* One topic per e-mail and informative subject line help us a lot. ("125
>Great ideas!!!" is a very bad subject line.)
>
>* Please, try to avoid any kind of flaming on the list for the next 10
>days.
>
>* Finaly, If you have time and skills to pick up ideas from long
>discussion threads and write a good summary, please do it, it will help us
>a lot.
>
>[TOPICS]
>
>Topics we are particularly interested in at this moment include:
>
>1) ergonomics: What should our user interfaces look like in the
>future, what should we improve in our desktop configuration, which things
>need polishing...
>
>2) install: Which features of our current installation
> program (DrakX) do you like, which features are you missing, what is not
> clear enough? The same question goes for post-install configuration
> tools.
>
>3) packages: which packages to add, what to remove from the distro,
> which subset of packages is really nessesary for a minimal install,
> and which packages are "just add-ons"?
>
>4) tools: which new tools (packages) should we develop ourselves, or
> improve in case we are already developing them? Many great
> programs already exist out there, so we really badly need to know
> which important linux tools you still miss, in order to
> concentrate on them in the future.
>
>5) system policy: We want to make our system "logical" by following the
> Linux Standards, and being consistent in the way
> "things" (services, settings) are implemented. Tell us where
> we need to improve.
>
>6) security policy: Closely related to point "6". You know that we care a
> lot about security, don't you? Well, the problem is choosing right
> security settings for various situations.
>
>(If you feel that we have forgotten an important topic, just start a
>discusion on it, the list should not be taken too strictly)
>
>################
>I am going to spend a lot of time in reading "newbie" and "expert" mailing
>lists during next two weeks. Guillaume will do the same on the
>"cooker" list, and other members of the company may pop-up and take
>part in discussion too, for topics they may be particularly interested in
>(and if they get time to do it, our schedule is bursting).
>
>At the end of the discussion cycle (in two weeks), I will try to write a
>resume of what has been decided and share it with you.
>
>yours
> Denis Havlik
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>Dr. Denis Havlik <http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik>
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