Questioning Pirut

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 22:30 +0530, Kevin Verma wrote:
> Dear Pirut Developers,
> 
> I've been trying to use Pirut over the FC5 rawhide, referring a screen
> shot here from the wiki,
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/FedoraCore5/007_Pirut
> 
> I will like to know your point of view why we really needed yet
> another package manager, I understand that this one is created more to
> adapt to Yum system. I will like to know your view if
> system-config-packages could have been adapted to Yum as well ?

Pirut replaces system-config-packages.

[...snip...]
> Please respond, flames are welcome but I just wanted to be more clear.
> If some one can also tell me how up2date will be tested with Fedora
> ahead or Red Hat is keeping that out of Fedora and still plan to use
> it ahead for RHN.

Pup replaces up2date.  There is no notification icon but I think I heard
rumblings on this list (see archives) that someone was working on one
using libnotify et al.

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