On Monday 05 December 2005 13:19, Ten wrote:
A friend and I were debating something like this the other day. I think that whilst APT is very nearly there in terms of getting package management right, the time may be right to implement drag and drop installation on a linux distro just to see how it flies.
Just to be picky here... APT is, in my book, something completely different to apt - The former being an acronym for machine tool programming and the latter, a package management system. See http://www.austinnc.com/iapt.html for a brief overview of APT.
As for drag'n'drop package installation, kpackage handles the task reasonably well, and having dpkg/apt as a backend, dependencies are automatically resolved. That said, I'm a bit of a command line junkie, so tend to use apt-get or dpkg directly ;)
Regards, Paul.