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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Project Raisin
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:42:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427902964.13425.23.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1504011553280.7690@kaball.uk.xensource.com>

On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 16:13 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > I think "raise" should take commands.  The main way package
> > prerequisites should be installed, I think, is for raise to give a
> > list of packages to the user, and the user to "sudo $PACKAGEMANAGER
> > install $LIST" themselves.
> 
> Giving commands to raise could be a good UI improvement, but I disagree
> on the package installation. In any case there is a way around that,
> using the -n option. Maybe we could consider making that the default.

Yeah, I think the default should be to do as George suggests and print
the prereqs as a list to be installed by the user, with an option
--auto-install-dependencies (or something shorter!)

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-01 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-31 10:16 [ANNOUNCE] Project Raisin Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-01 13:04 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-01 15:13   ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-01 15:42     ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-04-01 20:19     ` George Dunlap
2015-04-02 14:25       ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-02  9:09 ` Ian Campbell

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