On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 11:10:01PM -0700, David Masterson wrote:
> RPM is really great for managing packages under Linux. Its ability to
> download the package from an FTP site makes upgrades of individual
> packages relatively easy. What I'm surprised about is that the RedHat
> FTP site makes it so difficult to find interesting packages.
> Basically, if you don't know what a package does by its name, you're
> out of luck unless you download it so that you can do a Info Query on
> it (rpm -qi). This is expensive and time consuming.
>
> I'm surprised no one has suggested to RedHat a simple batch job to
> make it easier for people to find packages of interest. Off the cuff,
> if they could run a batch job like below, that would be really nice:
Go to redhat web site -> installation support -> package listing ->
pick your platform e.g. linux/intel -> pick index format of choice
e.g. indexed by name -> read the list of package names with short description
-> pick a package -> read the long description -> download from there
if you wish.
enjoy clicking
paul
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