On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:43:30PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
That is a value judgement. It may well be accurate for us folks in North America or Europe. However, it may not be accurate for someone struggling in a non-profit, or for someone in Africa or Asia.
It used to be one package so its an improvement already. It will save update bandwidth and in the future can get better
What we need is a generic dummy application. It pops up, or prints to stdout, as appropriate, something like, "Sorry but %s is not installed. Please install it, as root, like so: 'yum install %s'. Thank you." where %s is the name of the app the user wanted.
You can probably do that with the current infrastructure. Pull the yum package headers, parse for /usr/bin /usr/sbin etc paths for executables and ln -s them all to a python app which can do X or command line.
Little project for someone perhaps
Alan