Fedora, Portable Edition?

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

On 04/09/2009 02:52 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> 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.
>
>    
Have you seen a Windows installation's Add/Remove menu after a long 
series of security updates?  The number is staggering.