Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 12, 2005 01:32 AM
>>Also, there should be a small area for some package summary with some graphics<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.... Would you really like to be forced to download some graphics every time you update repository information?
For the time being you have to download about 3MB to update repository information(in Ubuntu). If you wanted to download graphics then it would be 10MB or more. I don't know what's the progress of a ubuntu project that was supposed to give you this information(screenshots, comments,etc), but the aim of the project is that this information could be accessed with a browser.
Since almost all the distributions have similar packages (I mean versions of packages) there could be some central database e.g. packageinformation.org or whatever that would store information about all the possible apps, libs, games, etc. You could access it with a browser (some search engine, browse by category) or using synaptic (you select a package and then choose screenshots tab and synaptic downloads all the necessary information).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 12, 2005 01:32 AMWould you really like to be forced to download some graphics every time you update repository information?
For the time being you have to download about 3MB to update repository information(in Ubuntu). If you wanted to download graphics then it would be 10MB or more. I don't know what's the progress of a ubuntu project that was supposed to give you this information(screenshots, comments,etc), but the aim of the project is that this information could be accessed with a browser.
Since almost all the distributions have similar packages (I mean versions of packages) there could be some central database e.g. packageinformation.org or whatever that would store information about all the possible apps, libs, games, etc. You could access it with a browser (some search engine, browse by category) or using synaptic (you select a package and then choose screenshots tab and synaptic downloads all the necessary information).
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