From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EcARn-00061s-2P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:42:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAFNfCt0014542; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:41:12 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAFNZxf1028452 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:36:00 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A102E1CB163 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:34:02 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:35:59 +1300 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realplayer download security problem In-Reply-To: <437A6BCC.6050505@planet.nl> References: <20051116113655.D8F5.NICK@rout.co.nz> <437A6BCC.6050505@planet.nl> Message-Id: <20051116123327.D909.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] X-Archives-Salt: 9fe1e98b-dad9-45fb-8488-b262478816fc X-Archives-Hash: 859ecbb9407bb15f80c45113d4a93d6e On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:14:20 +0100 Holly Bostick wrote: > You can also do this (look inside an RPM) with: > > -Krusader (KDE file manager) > -KFM (Konqueror; at least I could under SuSE, and while you of course > don't get the SuSE-added patch functionality of being able to "Install > (the RPM) with YAST" directly from Konq, I believe the ability to open > the archive is native to Konq) > - Any GUI archive program (file-roller, KArchiver, etc). Didn't know that, thanks (although its not a task I perform very often now thanks to gentoo) > > Simplistically speaking, an RPM is just another kind of archive, so most any > application that can look inside archives (transparently or dedicated) > can do this, for those of you who are not big terminal geeks. But even > if you're not a big term geek, mc has a lot to recommend it (especially > if you don't happen to have X available), and this is one of the > abilities that makes mc worth remembering and encourages one to use a > terminal every once in a while (or more often-- more cli applications > than one might imagine are extraordinarily functional, and that high > function makes them cooler than one might expect). IMHO mc is the killer command line app :-) people may not know that it also has built in abilities to mount filesystems over a network (smb, fish/ssh, ftp). There is heaps of coolness in there. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list