On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Rahul Sundaram <methe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Christian Schaller wrote: > >> Hi, >> The core principle of the installer is that it operates on an application >> level and not a package level. The current way it determines if something >> is an application >> is by looking for a .desktop file. So in theory you could put a >> bitchx.desktop file into the bitchx package and it would appear in the >> installer. That said I don't >> think it is generally a bad idea if command line/terminal applications >> are installed from the command line, but there is no hard policy blocking >> such applications from making themselves available in the installer. >> > > It might be a good idea to rethink this strategy. I don't have a problem > with using yum but I am not going to fire up the installer just for gui > packages and fall back to command line to install command line > applications. It is a confusing approach. Perhaps instead of ignoring > them entirely, you can just sort the results or having a secondary view > "Click here for command line applications that match your search results" > etc can be considered. > > Rahul > > A thought as we move into the future: if we continue with the installer, end users may one day forget about the yum command and all the awesome packages out there; they may forget about the command line altogether. Richard
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