On 30 Sep 2010, at 19:41, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > From my point of view, if would be good, if we get good, Free Software > GUI frontends for the fink and macports package management systems. > The GUI should support what the backends offer. This has two consequences:
http://porticus.alittledrop.com/ http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/ They already exist. I don't know anyone who uses them. I'm not sure what the advantage is of creating one from scratch that looks like an installer. > a) if we would need to have links from official places into the fink > installation, this would need to be supported from the backend, not the gui. > Maybe something like the alternative system from Debian, if we like to > have several versions of fink to be installed > > b) there is no conflict if users mix usage of the gui frontend and the > command > line frontend to the package manager. The Hildon application manager of > Maemo5 (N900) shows that this is possible. Hildon is a frontend to libapt > and thus dpkg. There are some little extras to define the packages visible > to the user, but overall you can mix command line and gui and have nice > updates. In this case, you're depending on a Macports/Fink installation which, earlier in the thread, the Fink developers said wouldn't be a good idea. -- Cheers, Mike McQuaid http://mikemcquaid.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
