Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] > > Think a bit further, currently rpmdrake has an "easy" interface, but > not a > > friendly one. (Look at some Mac software). rpmdrake has become quite > nice, > > but it is sometimes not suited for the things many users want. > > > > And of course, at present rpmdrake can only be run as root. If it were Untrue! This time you suck.. you asked for that feature, I've said I would add it, I've added it on May 28, but you didn't even notice :(. > run as normal user, it should be run in "browse all possible packages" > mode, and installed packages could be launched by the user, if the > package is not installed, rpmdrake could be called as root in install > mode to install the package. Thus, one action would be available in the > user mode, "run". It would run the software if it is installed, if not, > it would install it, then run it ... > > > Well, I was never able to convince you, and have proposed doing it > myself, > > but I lack the time unless I gave up some other projects:( > > Of course, we are even ignoring the requests on MandrakeClub for > packaging rpmdrake from 8.2 ... which have been made for 9.0 and 9.1. I'm not sure the issue is only packaging. There is also an API problem probably (remember, "maintainance"). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
