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DC:

quote:Originally posted by sporkme / bob:
the only problem i can see is that the newbs wont be able to install it without a graphical interface in the first place!
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That's where distro's and friends are for.
OK, maybe they'll have problems with this, but installing *one* program by source/RPM and the rest by gui is easier than installing lots of 'em.

Anyway, 'bout the ./configure options: those are far from always the same, and the help provided with the files is usually quite arcane (that's the original problem). How do you present those in an orderly fashion if you can't even get a decent list?. Unless you're manually adding them to every packet available - if you do that I will praise you untill eternity (or untill you're finished - but that's the same).

badkarma:

quote:Originally posted by DC:


That's where distro's and friends are for.
OK, maybe they'll have problems with this, but installing *one* program by source/RPM and the rest by gui is easier than installing lots of 'em.

Anyway, 'bout the ./configure options: those are far from always the same, and the help provided with the files is usually quite arcane (that's the original problem). How do you present those in an orderly fashion if you can't even get a decent list?. Unless you're manually adding them to every packet available - if you do that I will praise you untill eternity (or untill you're finished - but that's the same).
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seeing the configure script is automatically generated, the options are presented in a (reasonably) coherent way, which means they are parsable by a regular expression, and to me it seems possible to isolate the configure options (I'll have a look at this maybe next weekend)

sporkme:
the simpler solution would be to make the packages more installable, not the installer more complicated.

personally once i did it a coupla times it became easier than clicking. one step.  type it and it is (likely to be) right.

choasforages:
i don't know, i just thought it up. im currently thinking of another cool idea that someone should do. www.nostatic.org/groove looks pretty sweet from the screen shots.

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