Stephen Pickering wrote:
> ustin Acton wrote:
> 
>> We could stop a LOT of the complaining by adding one simple feature...
>> In the RPM installer, add an icon that opens the package remover; in the
>> remover, add an icon that opens the installer.
>>
> Better still revert to the old style installer and add switches to 
> enable restricted views and
> add appropriate menu calls, eg:
> 
>    RPMDRAKE (Expery)    rpmdrake
>    Install software        rpmdrake --installer
>    Remove Software    rpmdrake --remover
>    Update software    rpmdrake --updater
>    Software sources    rpmdrake ---sourcemgr

I am quite sure gc will take offers for someone to maintain rpmdrake 
(old version). I am quite sure the rewrite of rpmdrake wasn't done to 
provide the 4 buttons in mcc.

What I would like to do is query all packages, and be shown whether it 
is installed or not, not having to know if I have installed it or not. 
When people complain about missing software, it's currently easier to do:

$ urpmq --sources 'name'

to tell them it's in contrib, but then I have to fire up rpmdrake if 
it's not installed to see any details.

Buchan


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