On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 8 Oct 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >>That's not obvious to me. Packages (programs) installation has > >>been simplified in rpmdrake2 (ending up with, among others, > >>current two-different-interfaces which is so critized - even if > >>it's logical and drastically simplifies the GUI). Simple > >>categories are available, good documentation in powerpack manuals > >>and online (and even with a clickable "Help" button now). > >> > >>If newbies don't use Packages Installation, I think it has more > >>to do with the fact that a computer is frightening in general - > >>they won't use other tools as well, outside of mozilla and > >>evolution and openoffice, until a trusted computer literate > >>friend shows them another one - probably not an administration > >>one. > >> > >>And I'm sure many other persons use rpmdrake2 and are very happy > >>with it. > > > > rpmdrake2 is wonderful. But, it still keeps surprising me how people > > think. The last few days I've been helping a person trying to get > mandrake > > running. He's not so computer illiterate, but only knows windows and dos. > > Somehow, he tried to install all kinds of programs from source or binary > > tarbal, without even trying to use rpmdrake (ofcourse he might have not > > found the programs he was looking for because only 1 CD was added as > > media, since he only downloaded the first CD). > > But, which media are available are of no consequence, if the user didn't > even try rpmdrake ...
yes, probably you're right. I should ask him, maybe he looked only at it and decided it didn't have the stuff he wanted. > > The problem is that Windows users are used to getting "free software" > (really "Shareware" or "freeware") by downloading from obscure sites on > the internet. true :) > > So could rpmdrake > > provide info on packages, even if there is no media available for it? > > > > How? Telepathy? You're not very optimistic today:-P Might be a bad idea, but, we could just store all of main+contribs+jpackage hdlists on the drive? As all these media are static, it is silly to get them from a mirror. So you can search at look at the description, and only if you really want it you can select a mirror to download it from. > > I think this is already done. how do you mean "done" ? do you refer to urpmi.setup? It is not really integrated in rpmdrake? d.
