Re: Call for Yum Frontend

[Sean Earp <smearp mac com>]

SuSE just (or is in the process of) GPL'ing it's YAST tool (which 
combines the basic functions of Anaconda, system-config-packages, and 
up2date/yum)

http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5175682.html?tag=nefd_top

(donning flame suite now...)

-Sean ;)

On May 9, 2004, at 5:34 AM, D James wrote:

> seth vidal wrote:
>
> > Up2date's interface makes it difficult to perform certain tasks. For
> > updating packages it works a treat, but for selecting new things to be
> > packaged and/or removing item it can become a bit cumbersome.
> > Something that was discussed on fedora-config-list was if
> > system-config-packages interface could be coupled to one of the 
> > various
> > backends to help with the interface. A redesign of the up2date ui to 
> > be
> > geared more toward installation/removal/etc of packages instead of 
> > just
> > updating would also be adequate.
> >
> > -sv
>
> I definately think system-config-packages needs to be upgraded and 
> tied into yum and apt.  This will make it a true "Pacakge Managment" 
> tool


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