> On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:16:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > For this postinstall work, for CD exploration and for selective
> > uninstalls when short of disk space then a GUI is far better than
> > command line. I ever thought that people wanting to do everything
> > with command lin
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:21:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat 09 Sep at 23:38:53 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said:
> >
> > Being able to distinguish an elephant fro a sparrow is possibly the
> > skill who is the hardest to acquire for a hunter. Hint: if it is
> > small and has win
On Sat 09 Sep at 23:38:53 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said:
>
> Being able to distinguish an elephant fro a sparrow is possibly the
> skill who is the hardest to acquire for a hunter. Hint: if it is
> small and has wings then it is a sparrow, if it is big, grey and has
> a trunk then it is an e
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Being able to distinguish an elephant fro a sparrow is possibly the
> skill who is the hardest to acquire for a hunter. Hint: if it is
> small and has wings then it is a sparrow, if it is big, grey and has
> a trunk then it is an elephant. :-)
You'll have to admit i
>
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:16:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > For this postinstall work, for CD exploration and for selective
> > uninstalls when short of disk space then a GUI is far better than
> > command line. I ever thought that people wanting to do everything
> > with command
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:16:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For this postinstall work, for CD exploration and for selective
> uninstalls when short of disk space then a GUI is far better than
> command line. I ever thought that people wanting to do everything
> with command line or every
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:13:36AM -0700, Frank Hale wrote:
> > > >
> > > > No I wasn't aware of that at all.. I'm getting warm
> > > > inside now
> > > > though. ;o) I have a feeling that it will be much
> > > > more useable
> > > > in the next release as well. Thanks for the
> > > > poi
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:13:36AM -0700, Frank Hale wrote:
> > >
> > > No I wasn't aware of that at all.. I'm getting warm
> > > inside now
> > > though. ;o) I have a feeling that it will be much
> > > more useable
> > > in the next release as well. Thanks for the
> > > pointer..
> > >
>
Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> Not being rude here, but trying to understand what it is that is
> sought after.
>
> So what constitutes a `certain time'.
Okay without me sounding like a total ass. Glint is probably 99.9%
dead. I grew up on Glint, sure it may have been junky but thats what I
learne
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:15:20AM +0200, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:14:32PM -0400, Mark Shewmaker wrote:
> > Great! I had previously thought that if the gnome libraries weren't
> > installed or were corrupted, that GnoRPM couldn't be used to fix the
> > problem. I had
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 09:15:27AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Harry Putnam wrote:
> > > What does `glint' do for you that you cannot easily duplicate from the
> > > command line?
> >
>
> Many things. Like looking through all installed RPMS searching for
> packages who are at the same t
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:14:32PM -0400, Mark Shewmaker wrote:
> Great! I had previously thought that if the gnome libraries weren't
> installed or were corrupted, that GnoRPM couldn't be used to fix the
> problem. I had not known that the program was written to somehow
> fallback gracefully if
>
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > What does `glint' do for you that you cannot easily duplicate from the
> > command line?
>
Many things. Like looking through all installed RPMS searching for
packages who are at the same time rarely used and relatively big so
uninstalling them will free significant
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:54:51PM -0400, Frank Hale wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > What does `glint' do for you that you cannot easily duplicate from the
> > command line?
>
> I have no problem with the command line. However its nice at certain
> times to see things graphically, thats all.
N
Harry Putnam wrote:
> What does `glint' do for you that you cannot easily duplicate from the
> command line?
I have no problem with the command line. However its nice at certain
times to see things graphically, thats all.
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:13:36AM -0700, Frank Hale wrote:
> >
> > No I wasn't aware of that at all.. I'm getting warm
> > inside now
> > though. ;o) I have a feeling that it will be much
> > more useable
> > in the next release as well. Thanks for the
> > pointer..
> >
What does `glint' d
>
> >
> > No I wasn't aware of that at all.. I'm getting warm
> > inside now
> > though. ;o) I have a feeling that it will be much
> > more useable
> > in the next release as well. Thanks for the
> > pointer..
> >
>
> Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM?
> I am just not re
Frank Hale wrote:
>
> Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM?
> I am just not ready to use Gnome all the time. I like
> using just a small Window manager and a minimal
You can use GnoRPM without GNOME, sawfish, or Enlightenment.
It just need the GNOME liraries
The ones I see (for
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:13:36AM -0700, Frank Hale wrote:
> Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM?
> I am just not ready to use Gnome all the time.
Its perfectly possible to use GnoRPM without "the rest" of Gnome
(which is usually the panel and the session manager, really).
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Frank Hale wrote:
>
> >
> > No I wasn't aware of that at all.. I'm getting warm
> > inside now
> > though. ;o) I have a feeling that it will be much
> > more useable
> > in the next release as well. Thanks for the
> > pointer..
> >
>
> Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM?
>
>
> No I wasn't aware of that at all.. I'm getting warm
> inside now
> though. ;o) I have a feeling that it will be much
> more useable
> in the next release as well. Thanks for the
> pointer..
>
Are there any other graphical alternatives to GnoRPM?
I am just not ready to use Gnome all the
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> I can't speak for Red Hat, but my observation is that Glint was
>> buggy, and a native GNOME/Gtk app would be much nicer. GNOrpm
>> came along, and is no less stable than glint really.. I got
>> bitten by gnorpm and was angry about it, however I don
>
> ** the 'cli?' Don't know what that is. However, the replacement for Glint,
C == Command
L == Line
I == Interface
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hale ) writes:
>
> > Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to
> > RPM? I loved that app so I had this brilliant idea to go download it and
> > try to use it on RHL 6.2 but it sadly doesn't work. Is there any
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> >> John, it is obvious that neither of us is lying here, but both of
> >> us had very different experiences with Glint. I had so much
> >> trouble with it that I gave up on it. I was told it was buggy
> >
>
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Tony Nugent wrote:
>> John, it is obvious that neither of us is lying here, but both of
>> us had very different experiences with Glint. I had so much
>> trouble with it that I gave up on it. I was told it was buggy
>
>[ ... ]
>
>They should have fixed the bugs and improved
On Wed Sep 06 2000 at 02:53, "Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>
> >> Unlikely. GLINT crashed a lot, and was very buggy. A lot of
> >> people (myself included) hated it.. Also it is a TCL/TK app,
> >> which likely was why it was so buggy..
> >>
> >> The pro
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Unlikely. GLINT crashed a lot, and was very buggy. A lot of
>> people (myself included) hated it.. Also it is a TCL/TK app,
>> which likely was why it was so buggy..
>>
>> The program became obsolete when GNOME/GTK/KDE/QT apps came out
>> to do t
> Unlikely. GLINT crashed a lot, and was very buggy. A lot of
> people (myself included) hated it.. Also it is a TCL/TK app,
> which likely was why it was so buggy..
>
> The program became obsolete when GNOME/GTK/KDE/QT apps came out
> to do the job. You'd need to recode it to support the ne
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote:
>> Obviously not - we would have included it in the 7.0beta if we had
>> done so. I can't really see why anybody liked it either - it sucked.
>> I've much preferred the cli ever since I started using rpm.
>
>On a scale of 1 - 10, how hard would it be to make
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote:
>Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to
>RPM? I loved that app so I had this brilliant idea to go download it and
>try to use it on RHL 6.2 but it sadly doesn't work. Is there any plans
>to update this very nice app?
Unlikely
> gnorpm, the replacement for glint, TOTALLY sucks.
> Big time.
I tend to agree. However I wonder what actually needs
updating in Glint to make it work with newer versions
of RPM. Is there any RPM experts out there that could
shed some light on this?
Frank
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hale ) writes:
>
> > Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to
> > RPM? I loved that app so I had this brilliant idea to go download it and
> > try to use it on RHL 6.2 but it sadly doesn't work. Is there any plans
> > to update this very n
On Sun Sep 03 2000 at 18:12, Trond Eivind wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hale ) writes:
>
> > Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to
> > RPM? I loved that app so I had this brilliant idea to go download it and
> > try to use it on RHL 6.2 but it sadly doesn't
FWIW I liked glint as well, you could easily see what was installed, read the
info on packages, and it would automatically install dependancies.
Oh, well...
On Sun 03 Sep at 18:18:01 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said:
> > > Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to
> > Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to
> > RPM? I loved that app so I had this brilliant idea to go download it and
> > try to use it on RHL 6.2 but it sadly doesn't work. Is there any plans
> > to update this very nice app?
>
> Obviously not - we would have i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hale ) writes:
> Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to
> RPM? I loved that app so I had this brilliant idea to go download it and
> try to use it on RHL 6.2 but it sadly doesn't work. Is there any plans
> to update this very nice app?
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