Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 01:47 UTC, submitted by AdamW
The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008 Spring release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE 3.5.9 and available 4.0.1, some new default applications in KDE and GNOME, and the latest pre-release of OpenOffice.org 2.4. See here for download information. And URPMI got support for rpm5.
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Thanks for the compliments.
RPMdrake already has a select all button - bottom left of the window, under the category list. Also, we have metapackages for installing things like complete desktop environments. To install GNOME, install task-gnome. To install KDE, install task-kde. To install KDE 4, install task-kde4. To install XFCE, install task-xfce. Easy, no?
On the other thing, I'm going to take a new approach to the question.
Imagine if we could somehow implement a special system which hid source code tarballs from anyone but distribution developers.
Amazing! Your problem is solved!
Now it's really easy for anyone to install any available software on their Linux distribution of choice.
Oh, sure, the available range of software just went down...about 3%. But it's still more than enough for just about everyone.
Basically: if you don't know what you're doing with source tarballs, and you're not comfortable with learning, then *they're not supposed to be for you*. Linux works on repositories, that's just the way it is.
Yes, a usable 'universal' package system is extremely difficult. The problem is not the package format, that has nothing to do with it. The problem is that distributions are different, simple as that.