On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:31:40PM -0500, David B Harris wrote: > > > b) Our users care about what toolkits applications are written in; i agree. > > > having an easily-identifiable nomenclature for that (gnome-*, for > > > instance) makes their lives easier. > > > > to me, including toolkit information in the program name is duplication > > of information, since that information is already stated in the > > dependencies list of the package. > > My concern was that that information is not readily-accessible. i guess it depends on what you mean by easily acessible. with aptitude i do i search for libgnomeui-0, hit the 'r' key, and *bam*, i can see all of the gnoem packages in debian. thats readily accessible to me. though i dont neccessarily expect everybody to know how (or want to know how) to do that. maybe the system that osamu, daniel, et al are working on will help here. > imagine having to list dependencies in the frontends too) im not sure what you mean (or what frontend you use), since aptitude does display depedency information (though i guess not upfront). -- gram
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