Re: Package cache
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:17:22AM +0200, Gonsolo wrote:
> As Mr. Sliepen pointed out the same can be achieve with a FUSE daemon.
> I thought of symlinks pointing to an executable that load the necessary packages
> and corrects the symlink.
> For example:
> 1. Blender not installed
> 2. User types "blender"
Why would a blender user type blender? I would expect them to look for
blender in the application menu, see that it isn't installed, and then
see to get it installed.
This kind of feature makes more sense for command-line utilities, IMHO.
It would be maybe interesting to integrate it with the Desktop menus
though, so that we install the core desktop applications along with the
desktop environment's task, and add menu entries for the lesser used
applications of that desktop environment. Then, if some user tried to
start those, they get automatically installed.
Michael
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