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First things first, I would not know why someone should be using a |
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graphical installer instead of xterm or one of its colleagues. |
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Anyway, the problems you are pointing out are exactly what you're |
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sacrificing by using a GUI, and exactly the reason Gentoo doesn't have |
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a graphical installer (or one that you should be using, anyway). A lot |
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of Portage's configuration consists of bash scripts, and any attempt |
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to fully reproduce their capabilities in a GUI would lead to a big |
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mess (point-and-click programming, *sigh*). If someone desperately |
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wants a GUI, it would be for daily Portage activities, and definitely |
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not for obscure feature x or y. |
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Further, resolving dependencies is, in my opinion, outside the scope |
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of a GUI. Functionality that isn't present in the command-line version |
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of some program shouldn't be added just for the GUI version. |
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That said, I'm sure some people would love a GUI integration of |
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different package management tools (ie. search, install, sync...) into |
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one big package, and it would definitely be a nice improvement to |
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Sabayon. |
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tulcod. |
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:25 PM, xqyz <xqyzii@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 20 March 2010 11:16, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Last year we had a project for PackageKit integration that was never |
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>> integrated into the main tree. I would rather continue that work and |
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>> then any PackageKit GUI could be used with Portage. |
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> I agree, it would indeed be nice to have a portage integration in |
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> PackageKit, but given the rather unique way of handling packages in Gentoo, |
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> I would consider PackageKit to be a rather poor choice for a package |
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> manager. |
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> USE flags, inability to resolve circular dependencies properly and of course |
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> the advanced compile configuration that Gentoo offers are hard, if not |
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> impossible to be handled by PackageKit. Which is why I think that, even if |
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> there was a working integration of portage, it would not be used much. The |
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> problem with Gentoo is that it more often than not requires the users to |
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> make a choice instead of just settling for a package and clicking install. |
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> --Patrick Lerner |
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