[haiku-development] Re: Friendlier Optional Package installation

  • From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:08:51 -0400

On Thursday, June 9, 2011, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I would argue that there is no place for web interfaces for Haiku 
>> applications.
>
> For many things I agree but package selection is one area that is
> ideal as a web interface.

One excellent reason to not have a web based package manager: the
nightly images don't include a web browser.

That (and my lack of talent with c/c++) was the reason for
implementing installoptionalpackage as a bash + cli tools script --
every nightly image would have the necessary software.

--mmadia

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