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

[Jason Knight <tuxpenguin austin rr com>]

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.

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Jason Knight
Fedora Core 2 Test 3 *x86_64*