We will soon be at FC4 and system-config-packages will stillfall short

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Thu Mar 24 07:57:15 UTC 2005


> Michael A. Peters wrote:
>>
>> On 03/23/2005 10:52:40 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:
>>
>>> Dawid Zamirski wrote:
>>>
>>>> seth vidal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> System-config-packages really needs, I would say, requires,
>>>>>> an option allowing to see everything instead of just a subset of  the
>>>>>> distribution like presently.  Yes, I filed an RFE a loooong
>>>>>> time ago.  But FC4 will be still another release of Fedora
>>>>>> where most of the distribution is not visible from
>>>>>> system-config-packages so the only solution is use RPM from
>>>>>> the command line, while fighting dependencies and trying to
>>>>>> find what CD has the required package.
>>>
>>>
>>> On a related topic, I agree it would be good to have complete
>>> control over the package selection, what I would like even
>>> better would be the return of the list of additional packages
>>> needed to satisfy the dependencies of the chosen packages.
>>>
>>> Often times, one selects a single small package with out
>>> knowing its dependencies and suddenly pulls in a ton of
>>> stuff that was not wanted.
>>
>>
>> yum does this, I would expect pup would too.
>>
>
> Unless I mis-understood Seth's original point, the subject
> is package selection during installation.  Yum works after
> installation.
>
> Ray
>
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in my point of view, you use system-config-package to install software after the os-installation. isn't the
system-installaion not part of anaconda?

Roger




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