FACORAT Fabrice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Le mar 17/06/2003 � 22:10, andre a �crit :
> > On Tuesday 17 June 2003 22:21, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > >
> > > Argh. "another addition to the GUI"..
> > >
> > More like rpmdrake and rpmdrake-remove are just not the right tool for 
> > non-root users to select rpms.
> 
> That's sounds sensible to me IMHO.
> Indeed users need to know which packages are installed and which ones
> can be installed, and for this need search features ( name, category,
> summary, origin ).
> So the best way is to do a separate tool. keep rpmdrake and
> rpmdrake-remove small ( so don't need to increase startup time ).
> Do a separate tool ( application finder, Drake Carpet, or whatever u
> want ) this one will have a longer startup time ( to compute installed
> and uninstalled packages ), one window, search criteria, grouping.
> Search results precise if package is installed or not ( with a color or
> with a checkbox ) and of course description of the package.

It's highly unprobable I'm going to maintain a separate tool like
that :).

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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