FC3 (and beyond) wishlist

Jim Cornette music-cornette at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 20 02:34:13 UTC 2004


Peter Backlund wrote:

>>- Red Carpet (+ Daemon) as preferred dependency manager. It is faster 
>>than yum, written partly in python (unlike apt),
>>  has a much better graphical frontend than apt (Red Carpet vs. 
>>Synaptic), handles both installs, removals and updates
>>  (unlike up2date). The only disadvantage as I see it, is that it was 
>>developed by
>>  the number one competitor (Ximian, now Suse/Ximian/Novell), so I 
>>suppose this one would be out of the question (?).
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I tested this out recently to find out if there were any broken 
dependencies and this feature exposed three versions of gcc-gnat. This 
program feature is worth inclusion into FC, with rc or integrated into 
another program.

>Out of the "replace up2date" question, since up2date is tied to Red Hat
>Network. Pushing a technology in Fedora that is closely connected to the
>competition and offers the same functionality (RC Enterprise) as RHN, is
>probably not the smartest thing to do. Although it would be nice to be
>able to use RC to talk to RHN...anyway, I still think it should be
>adopted, maybe to push yum into Extras, or to go into Extras itself. It
>is IMHO simply the best dep. manager out there.        
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Up2date works great for me on a non-rhel version. not including this 
program on FC would cut down on the exposure and on testing of up2date 
in general. This would seem counter-productive to remove this program 
from the fold. As to pushing yum into Fedora Extras, this would not make 
sense to me. Yum is a system maintenence program and seems to be core to 
maintaining the system for many. I use this when another program w/ 
similar functionality is disabled for some reason.

Jim





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