martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.02.2248 +0100]: >> * Package name : dpkg-view >> Version : 0.0.2 >> Upstream Author : Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * URL : http://dpkg-view.alioth.debian.org >> * License : GPL >> Programming Lang: C >> Description : View the contents of .deb packages without root access >> >> Simple read-only viewer of .deb package files for Gnome. >> Accepts package locations on the command line to support >> the 'open' command in various file managers, one window >> for each package. Displays Debian control information, >> patch details and details of the files that would be >> installed (names, sizes and locations). Packages do not >> need to be installed to be viewed. > > Please do not use the dpkg-* namespace. I suggest you rename this to > deb-view or better yet gdeb-view or deb-gview.
Also, there's already gdebi, which is a GTK app which lets you both view and install packages. It does't handle being given several debs on the command line, but that's probably a trivial extension. -- ilmari "A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is, at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
