[PMH] Re: [Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Sun May 27 11:20:53 UTC 2001


Hi!

> > Also, like Vlad said, is this so likely really? Most applications are
> > shipped as RPMS or .debs these days, you dont really see plain binaries
> > much.
> 
> Most software comes as packages, but on the same time I feel that
> installers that acts as front-ends for installing the packages are also
> becoming more common, in my opinion, so that the user has not to care
> about learning the package manager commands. The Ximian installer for
> example :-)

Such installers are evil.

If you must, make it so that right-click on package and selecting
install automagically installs package. (Double-click on package
should still open it as a .tar file).

								Pavel
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