Fedora, Portable Edition?

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 01:47 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 18:37 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > > If it's written in python (which yum is), then it should be relatively
> > > easy to port to Windows compared to C/C++ code.
> > 
> > yum is, but rpm (which includes rpm-python) is not; that will take
> > significantly more effort to put in (e.g., Add/Remove integration).
> 
> I don't think Window's Add/Remove is equipped to handle a bazillion
> RPMS. Though putting a single "Add/Remove RPMs" entry that starts up
> gpk-application or something isn't a bad idea. All of which is moot
> until RPM actually works on Win32...

I don't think there would be a bazillion RPMs; most of the
infrastructure is already provided, so it would be things like widget
toolkits, specialized libs (e.g. liboil), and of course apps.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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