Peter Tribble wrote: >> > Interesting! The focus is rather different, but there's some >> > overlap with what I've been hacking into solview recently: >> > >> > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/solview.html >> > >> > when I get onto a real computer I'll definitely have a play with it. > > Definitely in the prototype stage, but has some interesting > features. Some detailed comments: > > I don't like the way it strips the SUNW prefix off the package > names. This makes it very hard to see what's actually > going on. This was Idea that Alberto Ruiz bring up. For "normal" users SUNW doesn't mean too much, and having a lot of packages that begins with SUNW make GUI less redible. I left CBE* and CSW* packages. The idea was to remove prefix and add in the Information tab icon or info telling what type of package it is.
> Checking gid=0 from the output of id isn't necessarily > accurate as a check of whether the user can install > packages. Prototype :-) Normally I should check for each packaging system, different thing (like "Software Installation" user attribute for CBE) > The counts of files in a package aren't accurate [...] I did not focuse on the Solaris packages, that is why it is not the most effective. > At the moment, anyway. I was planning on adding elements of actual > package manipulation eventually. Seems wasteful for us both to do > it independently! > > I would be happy to help out, or you could just lift bits of solview. I am a big fan of not duplicating work, so it would be really fantastic if you would like to contribute to this project. -- all the best Michal Pryc _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
