Re: Desktop issues discussion proposal

["duncan brown" <duncanbrown linuxadvocate net>]

Havoc Pennington said:

> To me a separate GUI based on the backends used is pretty darn weird. I
> don't see how it's sane to install both a yum gui and an up2date gui by
> default for example.

not only that, but you'd be re-inventing the wheel.  apt should be a part
of fedora core, along with synaptic.  i know that there are problems with
multi-arch procs and apt, but why not devote the time and effort into
getting apt up to snuff (along with synaptic) and have that as your update
manager?

-d

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