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

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Fri Sep 10 14:51:57 UTC 2004


Hi,
> 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 ;)
There seems to be some confusion about this in general, so I've put up a
page with a little information on the new MIME system for packagers
here:

http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/wiki/NewMIMESystem

--Ray Strode





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