Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> I'm not sure if fvwm95 menu entries calling a simple tk/tcl program to
> display info on one package is better than a styandalone tk/tcl package
> to provide info on all available packages. The standalone package
> could be used with any window manager.
>
> I just like the idea of Debain shipping with fvwm95 menus filled with
> entries describing hundreds of packages :-)
Well:
I like the idea of a X-based package information system. I also
think it'd be neat if that same information system was capable of doing
installation; this is easy enough with a simple script to call dpkg if
you can work around the dependencies.
I'm not an fvwm95 user, so naturally I'm not going to push it to
be tied to that interface. I was thinking that perhaps this might be a
decent java application: you could write essentially the same code to
run locally in your java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that
mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications)
to run in netscape across the net and find/display package info, so that
you could run the system ON the ftp site ...
Don't know how excited the sysadmins would be tho.
Will
harpo@udel.edu
lowe@ecl.ude.edu
http://www.ecl.udel.edu/~lowe/
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