Experiment: an RPM that shows uninstalled apps in main menu

[Denis Leroy]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Given that this rpm would already be carrying the entire list of 
> available software in official repos, their .desktop files, executable 
> names, and information about which package contains them...
> 
> I wonder if it would be feasible to start developing support for command 
> line 'yum install foo' suggestions to users (ala apt on debian/ubuntu 
> systems).
> 
> For instance, user knows (from a friend or random webpage) that the 
> program foo is neat, and tries to start it:
>  > foo
>  > Command not found: foo
>  > This program is available for Fedora but is not currently installed.
>  > To install this program type (as root): yum install FooPackage

That'd be nice to have also, and i think is fairly orthogonal to the 
fedora-apps RPM idea. After all this targets terminal users, while the 
uninstalled icons target all users, especially those that never use a 
terminal app (i.e. those for whom the only way to install additional 
software is with the 'Add/Remove Software' menu entry, aka pirut).