On Monday 05 December 2005 13:35, Paul wrote:
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.
Since the perception of the two identical acronyms is subjective, I wouldn't call it picky, just informative. Always good to have new information, thanks.
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.
Specifically, I was referring to drag 'n' drop installation in a similar vein to Apple Computer's idea of it - a very non-techie end-user orientated way of doing things, it may seem, but it has many possibilities to explore.
Personally I prefer APT to any other kind of package management infrastructure, and look forward to apt-build becoming a benchmark for platform-independent package management when we all have huge pipes and hoverboards and stuff, but the way I see it, if you're going to bother having a GUI, it's worth having one that's been executed with style and competence.
It's no use going the way they've gone "over there" and settling for extremely limited GUIs.
Anyway, I am nose-diving out of the topicsphere here, so I shall pull up. :)
Halfrunt,
ten