YUM and the package manager

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

Hi

Now that YUM is shipped with Fedora Core, wouldn't it useful to modify
the package manager (Add/Remove Applications) so that it uses YUM to
retrieve the list of packages and resolve dependencies ? More over, it
could be great to have a tool to add/remove sources from the package
manager.

Even greater would be to have a way to automatically add sources from a
website. For example, you go to freshrpms.net, click on "add this
source", Mozilla calls the package manager, which asks for the root
password, and adds the source to your yum.conf.

Another interesting things would be if up2date could _automatically_ use
the sources defined in /etc/yum.conf. That way, you don't have to add
your sources in two config files.

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Julien Olivier <julo altern org>