On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kosse...@kde.org> wrote: > Mardi, le 1 février 2011, à 19:39, Sune Vuorela a écrit: >> On 2011-02-01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kosse...@kde.org> wrote: >> >> And I'm not sure there should be >> >> such a thing. >> > >> > Hm. You don't agree that a user experience like >> > >> > "Sorry, missing X to do Y. Would you like to get X now for that?" >> > >> > is better than one à la >> > >> > "Na, no way to do Y."? >> >> Yes. since we can't assume the user has the right to install to the >> system directory, > > We can't assume for all, but in many installations the user does. Like the > ususal private computer. > For administrated systems, there could be a substitute which instead of > allowing to install rather aids the user to file a request to the admin, for > convenience and getting things done. > >> and we shouldn't set up a complete development >> environment for him. > > I was thinking of interfacing to the normal packaging system of the system. > He, something like DrKonqi installing the debug info packages on request. So > something like that is existing already, just needs to be generalized perhaps. > > Cheers > Friedrich
openSUSE's version of KDE has something like this as well. It might be worth seeing how they do it. -Todd
