Gnucash RPM management ?

[Laurent Jacques]

On Monday 02 July 2001 12:54, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 19:27:38 Laurent Jacques wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Following the recent discussions about that, don't you think that it will
> > be
> > perhaps good to create some visual management of the packages needed by
> > gnucash >= 1.6 ? Some kind of "red carpet" (a la Ximian) but for gnucash
> > ?
>
> I have to disagree here.  Package management is a problem that is
> best solved by the distributions.  Indeed it has largely been solved,
> as far as I'm concerned, by apt.  apt has now been ported to an rpm
> system (Connectiva Linux uses it), so there's no excuse for any Linux
> distro not to use it.

OK. I will use it. 
But all people are not familiar with apt. 
I think the gnucash development has to offer a simpler way to install gnucash 
for the non specialist users. This is why I spoke about a "Red Carpet" like 
installation script. In addition, this will be useful if there are more and 
more required packages in the future of gnucash.

Laurent.

> One thing that we will probably do for the CD is have some code to identify
> what distribution is running on people's system and thus install the
> appropriate
> set of packages, but even that will just hand packages across to the
> distro's
> native package management system.