Re: Call for Yum Frontend (also YAST and Yum Frontend)

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 18:47 -0500, Jason Knight wrote:
> D. D. Brierton wrote:
> 
> >...Red Carpet is a seriously good application. It pretty much
> >encompasses the functionality of yum, apt, up2date and
> >redhat-config-packages, and does some extra stuff too (for example, you
> >can ask it to install an RPM you have downloaded from somewhere or built
> >yourself and it will try and install all the dependencies for you).
> >.... Given that Red Carpet is completely open source is there some reason it
> >doesn't seem to have even been considered so far?
> >
> >Best, Darren
> >  
> >
> Or we could use Red Carpet as shown above, the point is, we need to have 
> SOME kind of package management, it doesn't really matter whether we 
> reinvent the wheel or use code verbatim from YAST or RedCarpet or Gimp 
> for that matter.

Please stop cross posting!

This belongs on fedora-config-list and ONLY on fedora-config-list.

-sv