[Mageia-dev] RPM features/issues/wishlist

Sat Oct 15 07:04:11 CEST 2011

+> The thing about packagekit, well most graphical frontends package
+> management (pm) is that they dont really need to be that functional.
+> By that I mean that yes it is great to be able to query nearly all of
+> urpmi's features in rpmdrake, however, isn't it much faster to just do
+> urpmf --files file-name.
+
+
+The people most likely to use a graphical program like rpmdrake are
+probably not so comfortable typing cryptic and distribution-specific
+shell commands!
+
+>  I guess what I am getting at is that as long
+> as basic functionality, eg searching, add/remove and repo
+> configurations are handled by the pm and done properly, ie not causing
+> any breakage, then I feel that it is fair enough to say that more
+> advanced functions should be done on the cl, firstly because that way
+> is easier, secondly because that way encourages less breakage from
+> just point and click and see.
+
+The right answer is that point-and-click-and-see should not break
+things.
+
+Years ago I used to recommend Mandrake Linux when I spoke at
+conferences, and one reason was that the admin tools had a log that
+showed you what commands were being run, and, if you ran the commands
+yourself, the same thing would happen. So it was a way for people to
+learn.
+
+Liam
+
+-- 
+Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
+Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
+
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