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

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Thu Mar 24 07:06:36 UTC 2005


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.  
>>    
>>
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>system-config-packages needs to die.
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>The plan is for it to die.
>
>Pup work is still going on. If you'd like to help, cvs is available pup
>and I'm sure paul would except intelligent patches.
>
>-sv
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pup can only update packages while system-config-packages can also 
install/uninstall so pup looks like an replacement for up2date but not 
for system-config-packages




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