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Re: setup.exe sucks


Christopher Faylor wrote:

That's right.  RPM does not have Recommends, and that would be nice.  It isn't
designed to be UI based, though.

Is this a real problem?


Wouldn't the eventual solution still have to have a setup.ini-like file, that at least lists all the available packages? You can use that to add 'recommends' functionality on top of RPM in the UI.


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