On 05/11/2013 04:03 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:03 PM, "Germán A. Racca"
<german.ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
I sincerely think that this kind of complaints (I have seen several from you
too) won't take you nowhere.

Yes, it takes me to nirvana. It shows me what software is well written
and which ones are not.

Have you thought about programming a "simple" graphical interface without
any dependency at all? I you do it, I promise I package it for Fedora :)

Once upon a time, I did, just by using Zenity, a tool to add GUIs to
Bash scripts done by a guy at Sun Microsystems, Glynn Foster
https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/2.91/index-info.html.en

Such script worked with domain name registrations, and it stopped
working the time the registrar changed its web page (it did a lot of
ugly scrapping of html). But it only needed zenity, nothing else, and
certainly not 100MB of crud installed.

All the best, abrazos,
Germán.

In the end, German, it's a free world, and I'm free to complain if I
think some software is not designed as it should. It might end up
encourage others to "fix it", or design a better replacement. In fact,
had livecd-creator been _statically linked_ and available on the
LiveCD, I'd have just run 'livecd-creator' from a shell window and
this thread would have never happened.

In the end, German, do you know how I fixed it? here's the recipe, I
used TUXBOOT, which transfers ISO images to pen drives with a friendly
GUI, and doesn't need the same tons of deps as LiveCD-creator does.

I got it from here.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tuxboot/old/tuxboot-linux-39-i686?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Ftuxboot%2Ffiles%2F&ts=1368243790&use_mirror=ufpr

Of couse, all weren't roses... it wants to be run as root, and Fedora
by default does not run GUI apps as root. So I had to do

1. xhost SI:localuser:root

and then install the p7zip-plugins package that it requires but is not
on the F18 repos.

2. yum install 
ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/fedora/releases/18/Everything/i386/os/Packages/p/p7zip-plugins-9.20.1-4.fc18.i686.rpm

Finally, I had to run it with beesu.

But it certainly didn't need 100MB of deps installed.

As usual, just my $0.02 worth of opinion ;)
FC


But... does it work if you don't have qt/kde installed?

G.
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Germán A. Racca
Fedora Package Maintainer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux
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