[haiku-development] Tracker based package manager utilities
- From: "X512" <danger_mail@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 00:12:32 +1100
I have tested Haiku distribufion with package management and I'm really
impressed. Now I can install/uninstall packages just by
inserting/removing it into special folder. No wasting time on package
extraction or removing, no file system load by small files and
fragmentation. Also compressed packages are faster than extracted ones
becauce disk is slower than on-the-fly extraction.
But do we need GUI package management tool as in Linux? Tracker already
provide package inttallation and uninstallation abilities. To see
package information "package viewer" program can be made. It will show
info on some package (author, description etc). It could be integrated
with Tracker in similar way as ShowImage does. Also monitoring Tracker
selection can be made to show information on selected package (for
ShowImafe this will be also nice to have).
For installing packages from repositories separate program can be also
made. It will list avalible packages and make ability to install it by
drag'n'drop or some "Install" button.
For better look of installed packages BFS attribufes can be used. It
can be used to show user-friendly package name and indexable attributes
such as author, category (games, development etc.) to make BFS queries
possible.
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