Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:20:41 +0200, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Andrew Flegg wrote: > >> Then there's no benefit to having them visible in HAM. The tool which >> started this discussion, socat, could easily be installed by someone >> doing `apt-get install socat' as root. > > Do you know that almost any current Linux distribution has a GUI package > installation program? And that each such program displays thousands of > CLI and advanced GUI programs? Are you sure that reinventing this wheel > is a good idea?
This is largely the current situation. But I think it's unwise to say that it's the optimal solution, so of course trying to improve this is a good idea. In fact, one could say that the trend in Linux distributions is to move away from this. Consider Ubuntu: they have a separate "Software center" that shows only a subset of the available software and aims to be simple to use. -- Pauli Virtanen _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
