One of the things you talked about was desiging new tools. One thing that would be neat to have, but I'm not sure how exactly you'd do it, is a .tar.gz uninstaller. Have a program that keeps track of where all the files go when you do "make install" and then have the program delete those files if the user doesn't want the program anymore. Or on that line of thought, maybe a program that'll automatically install a .tar.gz file. I relieze not all .tar.gz's follow the same pattern, but about 95% of them it is "tar -xzvf the_file.tar.gz; cd the_file; ./configure; make; make install". And while you could put that in a shell script, many newbies don't know how to do that. Heck, you could combine that with the uninstalling suggestion I had above and make into one program. Of course, for those .tar.gz's that don't follow the pattern, I'm not sure how you'd find out if they follow it or not, and if they don't, then what? But I like hte idea of a program that untars and installs .tar.gz's automaticaly for you. It confuses a lot of newbies, and I know it sure as heck confused me. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
