I know about synaptic which is a graphical front end for apt. It is a nice tool I use regulary under Debian. I never use it under RPM system but the web page you pointed to said it can handle RPM. Hilaire On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:26:15 -0500 Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net> wrote: > I know it may not look like it to the casual observer, but the > ISO project is continuing to move forward. I'd like to get some > opinions from you all. > > One of the goals of the ISO project is to be > distribution-neutral. We've taken that to mean that all the > software we package should be available as RPMs, DEBs, and TGZs, > so they can be installed on any distro that uses any of these > systems. I've been looking at Synaptic > <http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/> as an installer that we could > use for all these packages. > > I've recently found out about autopackage > <http://autopackage.org/>. It's intended to be a distro-neutral > installer with many nice features. I wonder if it might not be > the best way for us to go. > > Here's one thing I'm not sure of. Another goal of our project is > to have our repository of educational apps be available to the > distro makers to adapt and include in their distros if they > choose to do so. Would going with something like autopackage > make this much more difficult or preclude it entirely? If so, > would the benefits of autopackage outweigh the costs? > > Please take a look at both Synaptic and autopackage (and any > other installers you know about that you think might be useful) > and give us your thoughts. Thanks, everyone. > > -- > How valuable is my contribution? > Share your feedback at Affero: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=drloss > > Doug Loss Courage is resistance to > Data Network Coordinator fear, mastery of fear -- > Bloomsburg University not absence of fear. > dloss@bloomu.edu Mark Twain > > -- OFSET - http://www.ofset.org Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching
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