Desktop issues discussion proposal

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:29, seth vidal wrote:
> > If you have individual and group installation and removal (plus handling 
> > multiple repository which I believe yum already does ... I am not currently a 
> > yum user), this could give the needed functionality as well as replace 
> > up2date.
> 
> up2date isn't going away - it's interfaces to rhn and the protocols
> involved are it's  best feature - in addition, adrian has generated a
> rather impressive infrastructure in up2date.
> 
> But I would like to see a nice gui on yum and some neat utils derived
> from there.

To me a separate GUI based on the backends used is pretty darn weird. I
don't see how it's sane to install both a yum gui and an up2date gui by
default for example.

Havoc