On Saturday 29 March 2003 20:28, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:
>> * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should
>> have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM
>> to hand for, or rebuilding just the instaklled packages - and
>> consequently rebuild URPMI updates if need be.
> Of course optimisation is not necessarily worthwhile, so I think correctly
> packaging software which *does* take advantage of optimisations would be
> better.
How? A likes-optimisation RPM spec tag?
LikesOptimised: CPU=i686 SSE
>> * A working MS-DOS emulator.
> Didn't dosbox go into contrib just after release?
My point exactly. (-:
As I mentioned before, DosBox's author says the next release will be much more
worthwhile packaging.
> > * RDesktop.
> On CD1 in 9.1
Tick! (-:
>> * Documentation on how to submit stuff like ISP details for the internet
>> Drake thingy.
> But ISP details need to be completed, I remember Mandrakesoft asking for
> this information around 8.0!
>> Two aspects, one which could be profitably built into Konqueror as a
>> protocol server (e.g. doc://name) which searches likely spots
>> (man-pages, info, /usr/share/doc/name-*/*, KDE handbooks etc) and
>> presents a short menu of likely-useful documentation for the
>> command/file/whatever.
> You mean man:, info: and locate: aren't enough?
No. First off, you have to try each separately; second off, useful information
in /usr/share/doc/$NAME-* isn't included; and third off (I just thought of
this one), it doesn't pull out and reference the URL tag from any related
RPMs (try "rpm -q --queryformat '%{URL}\n' $(rpm -qf $(which bash))" on your
favourite program).
> Here are some of mine:
> 1)ACL support in the mainstream file managers. How long have we had ACLs
> for? It's still easier to manage them from windows!
Please!
> 6)Configurable update-source in install (we don't have net access without
> a special interactive program, but we have an internal updates mirror)
Please!
> 7)GUI-tools support for writing DVDs
Hmm. Haven't a DVD burner to try, but is anything more than k3b needed?
Cheers; Leon
