Piotrek Juzwiak wrote:

Michael Fox wrote:

...

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 19:12 -0500, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:

...

Hi Michael,

Il giorno gio, 12/03/2009 alle 10.25 +1100, Michael Fox ha scritto:

...

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

ok my bad, you can double click and it works :S(been a while since i tried as the old one never worked), but i still think an install from file option in yast2 is still needed

...

...

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.

I still believe this is a major issue with linux adoption, especially openSuSE adoption since we are predominatly rpm based and most other distros are using debs

Regarding the .deb files, making it easier to install might create a chaos. One example, package for the same application in debian/ubuntu was built against python2.5 etc. and Ubuntu doesn't have (i might be wrong) the ability to install 32 bit packages along 64 bit ones. For example where in openSUSE we have /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib in 64 bit Ubuntu it is just /usr/lib. So we would have to address this problem but until Ubuntu/Debian is bilt against the same packages then it's only an opportunity to create BUG hell.

-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org