[Mageia-dev] Introducing several rpm macro

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 07:32:41 CEST 2011


On 6 July 2011 06:30, Kira <elegant.pegasus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 在 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:56:10 +0800, andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net>寫道:
>
>> Funda Wang a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to introduce several rpm autoprovs, such as mimehandler,
>>> fontconfig, the same as fedora, opensuse and mandriva. So that we
>>> could eventually doing something like 'urpmi font(:lang=jp)
>>> mimehandler(audio/x-mp3)".
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> If it provides extra functionality present in the other rpm distros, it
>> sounds like a good idea.
>
> I agree that we can add some more functionalities to urpmi/rpm,
>
> but the user experience should be consistent.
>
> urpmi font(:lang=jp) is quite abnormal.....
>

Ideally, it won't be run by the user, but triggered automatically by
packagekit when needed, IIUC.

>>
>>> And, will we cooperate with mandriva with urpmi backend for packagekit?
>>>
>> I think it is a very good idea, since we have that in common, and urpm*
>> are nice tools.
>



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