On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Xavier Chantry <chantry.xav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xenof0nt <xenof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry there is no other alternative. The only solution is Shaman2 but
>> currently is in Alpha stage. That means it is highly unstable and dangerous
>> for your system.
>> Arch will never provide a graphical tool for pacman.
>> So if you can't live with this, then change to another distro
>>
>
> Never say never.
> Just curious, where does that come from ?
> Why couldn't a sufficiently motivated developer write a GUI frontend
> to libalpm good enough to get it packaged ?
> This actually happened with shaman, it was packaged in community by
> the main makepkg developer, Allan !
>

Yea. Whats wrong with a GUI frontend? People will use pacman or the
frontend- whichever they prefer. I know arch's wants to keep it simple
but providing a good frontend in the repos isnt a bad idea.

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