[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] New project: JPack - install your software easily !

[Michal Pryc]

Paul Gress wrote:
> Michal Pryc wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to announce a new project called JPack, which will provide
>> a GUI application for managing different types of packages for Solaris
>> Operating System.
>>
>> for more information:
>>
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/tasks/jpack/
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://blogs.sun.com/migi/entry/jpack_install_your_software_easily
>>
>> Please let me know what do you think about it.
>>
>>   
> This looks great to me.
> I also like the idea of plugins for other package systems (such as 
> sunfreeware).
The design will allow quite easily add this functionality, but this is 
not the most important thing for now.

> Some of my ideas for improvement are:
>
> CSW packages.  If I want to install, can it scan the web to list 
> available packages.  Then this is the big one, for its dependencies 
> can it scan all available libraries and place a link in CSW lib to 
> location of an alternate dependency.
>
> Maybe this can be a good start to alleviate the dependency nightmare.
>
> Maybe there can be a search engine, so I can search for a particular 
> package and it would search all available package repositories, 
> including source and from plugins then give me a choice how and where 
> I would like to install it.
>
> Also what would be a nice feature is if a package is missing a 
> dependency or a package is corrupt an explanation point in a yellow 
> triangle would appear next to the package to indicate it is in need of 
> repair (prodreg does this with corrupt packages).
>
> I noticed at the bottom it says "You are not root, you cannot 
> add/delete packages"  Maybe you can add a password manager like in 
> Firefox to automatically add login, or a setup for sudo, or just a 
> plain login to root.

Thank you for the ideas, will try to look on those features and see what 
is the most important for "normal" users.
I already have todo for the plain login to specific user.
Can you write something more about your idea of "scanning the web to 
list available packages"? To be honest I did not catch it clearly.

best
Michal