Hi all, recently i read that the hardest wall to linux adoption is software installation so i got to thinking how this could be improved. now on OpenSuSE new users will download an rpm (or deb) and think like on windows they have to double click on it, and ofcourse that dosn't work, so he goes looking for an app to do so and finds "install software" under computer thinks fair enough but once he opens he wonders "what the hell is this!!??" "i just want to install the file i downloaded!!!" so i propose adding an "install from file" module that ties into the current method, say just bellow search, have install from file, and when the rpm is loaded it checks its deps and searches the repos for them and adds them to be installed, then it installs the deps, then the rpm, killing 2 birds with 1 stone, deps problem and rpm usage. Now i said module as it should be able to run stand alone like 1-click-install,m so when you double click on the rpm, it will bring up an installation dialogue displaying deps installed and ones that are missing, this will make software installation a hell of alot easier Now here is the delicate part and why this mail is here. we need to have support for debs off the bat, but still be dominantly rpm as lets face it a lot of apps only provide debs and we need some way to support them as forcing a new user to compile is not nice at all and hampers the usability of Linux hence holding the person back from fully adopting Linux. So lets be the fore-bearers in destroying this brick wall :) -- Michael Fox Developer and user of Blender3d www.blender.org mfoxdogg@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org