setup.exe sucks

Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com
Tue Dec 7 22:25:00 GMT 2004


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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