We will soon be at FC4 and system-config-packages will still fall short
Demond James
maestronn at wowway.com
Thu Mar 24 14:47:47 UTC 2005
seth vidal wrote:
>>will we find "pup" here ?
>> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/
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>no, pup is a project paul nasrat(primarily) is working on at red hat.
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>>- edit existing yum.repos.d files
>>- add new repos, evtl. by clicking on
>>http://somwhere.org/repository/addthisyumrepo.file
>>- overview|enable|disable repos
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>>- sort packages|groups by: installdate, install-source, name, size, ...
>>- whichcd [RFE] - /usr/share/comps-extras/whichcd.py pckg1 pkg2 group1
>>group2
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>>- show package|group dependencies
>>(is it possible to access the rpm database via odbc ?)
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>>- sources (evtl. createrepo):
>> cd (distri-cds, additional-cds), iso-file, ftp, http, webdav, nfs, ...
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>>- different themes
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>okay so let's think about this.
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>Paul is writing an updater. It let's you select packages to update and
>it presents you the information in a non-threatening manner.
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>All of the features you mention above are extremely threatening to the
>new user. Why on earth would we clutter up an interface with something
>like themes for an updater?
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>-sv
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you're right,
How about having a default simple non-threatening interface and an
advance user interface that give more power options. Some of the
requested feature fit into the threshold on an intermediate user and I
think are something that new user will need and want to learn to do. We
just have to be a little friendlier in how we present them to the new user.
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