Hans Deragon wrote:
apt/synaptic is already developped by debian users. It is code already reused from another distribution. But you have a point to some extent.
I think you missed my point about development momentum..and development path INSIDE rhl. Would you also suggest that redhat use debian's package format in place of rpm....and how about using debian's installer in place of anaconda. Like I said you'd have to be pretty persuasive to convince people get rid of the redhat's homegrown tools in place of something else. There are rare moments in a project's development lifespan where dropping a toolset in favor of a different ones is going to actually be the developer preference. Hell lets just drop redhat's homegrown tools completely...all of the python based redhat-config-* tools..and just start from scratch with debian stable...thats my vote. You need to keep in mind the real investment in development manhours that has been made on a specific technology implementation that is already in rhl. the python tools arent going anywhere...and if you can roll functionality into those existing python tools then the longterm development effort is better spent doing that. adding yet another gui tool (synaptic) is not the right way to do it. You want to extend your investment in the toolset you have...extend the functionality of anaconda and r-c-p into accessing 3rd party repos. A quick synaptic fix is not the best use of previous developer time investments nor future development time. There will ALWAYS be better featuresets in some other piece of software that tries to provide the functionality you want to provide...but there are long term development trade-off especially if you are trying to integrate that functionality into multiple tools. Wouldn't you love to see a native install option of askmethod to be a repository? How does investing in synaptic going to give you that. Investing in a python native way to access repositories seems like a natural first step for longer term goals surrounding the existing python based tools. My crystal ball tells me the next 2 years will be...fascinating.
-jef"but if redhat moves to the slackware installer code base..my argument is null and void"spaleta