> The thing about packagekit, well most graphical frontends package > management (pm) is that they dont really need to be that functional. > By that I mean that yes it is great to be able to query nearly all of > urpmi's features in rpmdrake, however, isn't it much faster to just do > urpmf --files file-name.
The people most likely to use a graphical program like rpmdrake are probably not so comfortable typing cryptic and distribution-specific shell commands! > I guess what I am getting at is that as long > as basic functionality, eg searching, add/remove and repo > configurations are handled by the pm and done properly, ie not causing > any breakage, then I feel that it is fair enough to say that more > advanced functions should be done on the cl, firstly because that way > is easier, secondly because that way encourages less breakage from > just point and click and see. The right answer is that point-and-click-and-see should not break things. Years ago I used to recommend Mandrake Linux when I spoke at conferences, and one reason was that the admin tools had a log that showed you what commands were being run, and, if you ran the commands yourself, the same thing would happen. So it was a way for people to learn. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
