Re: Displaying remote root X apps locally

From: John D Groenveld (groenvel_at_cse.psu.edu)
Date: 04/28/03 

Date: 28 Apr 2003 14:47:26 -0400

In article <3ead6df6_1@news.arcor-ip.de>,
Thomas Dehn <thomas-usenet@arcor.de> wrote:
>One is the availability of a non-GUI installer,
>which shouldn't be that difficult.

Forte and several other groups use a Java installer front
end to pkgadd that could invoke Win32 and Linux installation
routines.

>I'm with you on this one, Rich. And don't forget
>to kill that productregistry, too, one package database
>should be sufficient.

Forte's installer doesn't even require a GUI but it does seem to
play with the stupid productregistry which I think is a
"feature" of SMC.

John
groenveld@acm.org