Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

[andre]

On Thursday 19 June 2003 18:08, Buchan Milne wrote:
> andre wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 11:42, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> >>Buchan's suggestion was not for selecting rpm's, it was for
> >>allowing non-root users to browse, so that afterwards they can
> >>request software installation to the machine's administrator.
> >
> > For which rpmdrake is totally inappropriate. For that you have to also
>
> know
>
> > what is installed otherwise you get this conversation:
> >
> > user>Can i have obscure-email-program
> > admin>Isn't kmail or evolution good enough?
> > user>I didn't see them
>
> Somehow, I think it is more likely they would find it in the menus under
> Networking->Mail first ...
>
> I would users to ask questions like that, than have them trying to
> compile something from freshmeat because they didn't know it was
> packaged already.
>
> Buchan
>
It may not be the best example. But the number of people who can't find k3d in 
rpmdrake because it already installed is definitely non-zero