Questioning Pirut

Igor igorm5 at vip.hr
Sun Feb 19 15:20:49 UTC 2006


Rahul Sundaram kaže:

> 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 ?
> That is exactly what pirut is. A adoption of system-config-packages to 
> use a yum backend with a new name to reflect the fact that the tool 
> doesnt require any configuration.

But there is a thing I don't like with Pirut. Pirut will always look on
the internet first, instead of looking into the CD/DVD media. That's a
feature which dial-up users won't like very much. The
system-config-packages tool worked only with CD/DVD media, which is much
better approach for dial-up users. All the users who have fast
connection to internet can always use Yum or Yumex for installing new
packages.

-- 
Igor Jagec




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