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Subject: Re: Red Carpet - Gnome Installer
From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz-home () cobol2java ! com>
Date: 2001-05-18 14:06:35
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Well, the short answer - NO.
Now - the long answer:
Red-carpet is "married" to gtk - and not only gtk but to the other parts
(corba, bonobo, etc).
You also don't have available the back-end source code which you'll need for
stuff like - how they resolve dependencies, how they parse each RPM for
versions (i.e. rpm -qif is not enough), and how deep the depency check goes
etc..
Of course - they could add the kde's RPM's inside - but that will "hurt"
their "pride" - or so, thats what I heard from their people.
Of course - in business sence, making kde available in their database is very
logical, specially when they start charging for it. However, unfortunately,
Ximian and logical doesn't go together. I have emailed to someone there this
proposition long time ago when they just started the red-carpet stuff. The
answer was "no".
Hetz
On Friday 18 May 2001 05:19, Jeff brubaker wrote:
> I just had a brain fart. I am in no way able to implement, but would it
> be possible for KDE to use the Red Carpet installer that is part of Ximian
> Gnome. It looks like it just uses rpm, and provides a slick interfaces to
> subscribing to channels. Could it therefore be modified to install a
> subset of gnome to get Red Carpet running, and then install the kde
> packages?
>
> -Jeff
>
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