On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Mark Stone <mark.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/7/19 Olaf van der Spek <olafvds...@gmail.com>: >> >> dpkg and rpm are (IMO) low-level tools that most users should not be >> using. The high-level ones are apt-get and yum. The high-level UI is >> the most important one. >> >> Olaf >> > > I have a lot more experience with dpkg/apt than anything else, but I > have to disagree here. 90% of the time users are only going to be > dealing with apt, and even then it will be hidden behind a GUI like > synaptic. But certainly there are times when you want a package that > isn't in a repository, and where the developer has at least gone to > the trouble of making a package out of it. In these cases at least > you're going to be using dpkg directly.
Right. IMO that's a gap in the functioanlity provided by the pkg management. Coapp should ensure it doesn't have such a gap. Installing packages from non-default repositories should be easy, such that stuff like auto-updates continue to work. Olaf _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
