<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffff66" text="#000000"> <pre wrap="">James J Catchpole wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <pre wrap="">> James J Catchpole wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <blockquote type="cite" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <pre wrap="">>>> I am not sure if anyone has commented on the >>> Add/Remove Software function but I find it >>> almost impossible to use. Following are a couple </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">[snip] As far as I'm concerned, yumex does everything I need. Why all the complicated (and broken) package managers that are nothing more than difficult to use yum wrappers? The new packagekit stuff looks interesting, but it's obviously broken, difficult to configure, and even more difficult to turn off. Rainman</pre> Actually I think your perspective is probably from the point of view of a sophisticated user. I think that as Linux is used more and more by casual users, I am in the process of migrating all my children and grand children's PC's to Linux, they need an easy to use powerful package manager. So from my perspective whoever is working on this Package Manager has not thought through where they want to be down the road and developed a path to get there; what I see is quite poorly done. Jim </body> </html>