On 06/06/10 at 06:30am, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xenof0nt <xenof0nt@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. It's been discussed before and rejected. If you want to know reasons and logic, search the forums or the MLs. No sense in beating a dead horse. --