Help with yum

[Neal D. Becker]

On Saturday 25 October 2003 05:30 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Ionut Boldizsar wrote:
> > Perhaps there will be a frontend for yum, as it is synaptic for apt.
> > Then it will be real easy to manage yum.
> > But the cli syntax is straight-forward for yum as we speak :)
>
> from the perspective of someone who's been using yum only briefly, it's
> simple enough that i think a GUI frontend would be overkill, particularly
> since yum is *meant* to be run on a nightly basis to keep your system up
> to date.
>
> once something's automated like that, there's little value in a GUI.
>

There is little need for a gui for regular updates to a well-connected 
machine, but there is an urgent need for a gui for browsing/installing new 
apps, and for updating a poorly-connected a machine.