Plans to include tools to make FC3 more user-friendly in terms of RPM?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Sep 10 02:42:24 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 21:28 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> I'm just wondering: Why was the "rpm-dubbleclick-to-install" feature
> removed from FC2? It worked quite well in FC1 and RH9, and made
> installing RPM's much easyer for newbies. Will this tool (or something
> similar) be included into FC3, and if not, why? If there is anything i
> can do to help, please tell.

The GNOME mime stuff changed and broke things.  It should come back in
FC3 once someone tells me how it's supposed to work now ;)

> I am also wondering if there is any plans to include a (one of the)
> grapichal frontends to yum.

There have been a few threads on this... realistically, the best option
is getting the work done so that system-config-packages sits nicely on
top of the new yum stuff.  Not going to happen for FC3 at this point,
though.

Jeremy





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