I thought the point of using a Browser front-end would be to free the package makers from having to struggle with creating a front-end, being able to connect with the packaging machinery through Tcl or Perl.
As for the argument that one should protect the user from shooting the user in the user's foot: an odd argument for an OS which is based on openness. If it's a security issue, the user wouldn't have permissioning to get at the needed files, so there's no issue. FWIW, SCO has gone the browser route for administation, and why is easy to see: it's the fastest front-end to construct, it uses real estate in a way which maximizes imparting of information, and users are already training in using that type of interface. How many years until Linux achieves world domination? <s> Hank -----Original Message----- From: Ionut Borcoman at debian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 12:11 AM To: Shaleh Cc: Peter S Galbraith; Debian Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution? Shaleh wrote: > > I have a tk app which reads the currently installed packages list and > lists them alphabetically. It also shows the files that each package > contains. It is very handy. I have the tk source (obviously) I lack > the accompanying C source for its lib. I have contacted the author and > hope he will respond. The app is called dpkgview and if ANYONE has its > source please say so, loudly. I would be glad to package it for Debian > or someone else can. > I've seen one using QT and KDE. It was a front-end for debs and rpms. At the time I've try it, it failed to install anything. But it was able to display in a 'explorer' like style the packages installed. Here is it's lsm: Begin Title: kpackage Version: 0.7 Description: Gaphical package manager for RPM and DEB packages Keywords: package rpm debian X XFree KDE Qt Author: Damyan Pepper, Toivo Pedaste + others Maintained-by: Toivo Pedaste ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Primary-site: ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/pub/k Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/admin Home-Page: http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/kpackage Original-site: Platform: Linux with Qt-1.31 GUI library and KDE Beta-1 Copying-policy: GPL I didn't check the state of it recently, but it looked promising. Ionutz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
