Making update functionality more usable (Was: Re: What next?)

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tor, 09.06.2005 kl. 14.42 skrev Rui Miguel Seabra:
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 05:34 -0700, Colin Charles wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 09:53 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > > > > I hate to admit it but I remove all the redhat update stuff as well and
> > > > > use yum or apt-get (if i'm feeling impatient).  I used ubuntu for awhile
> > > > > (but ultimately found fedora to be superior) and found their update
> > > > > functionality much more usable.
> > > > 
> > > > Since one of the goals of FC5 is to have pup in place to handle updates
> > > > from a graphical point of view, I'd be interested in hearing what sorts
> > > > of things made the Ubuntu stuff more usable.  Or the same for other
> > > > distros as well.
> > 
> > Just to make it clear, Ubuntu just has: dpkg/apt, Synaptic, and
> > update-notifier, right?
> > 
> > We (will) have: rpm/yum, s-c-packages(okay, pup), and pup's
> > update-notifier
> 
> They have a graphical update manager that's very fancy. Probably the
> update-notifier icon is part of that update manager.
> 
> Another very interesting thing is that every single one of those apps
> around packaging use the same repo settings (besides other settings), so
> they feel integrated.
> 
> Rui

They all use apt, so apt sources is always used.

I think Fedora is also heading that way (yum).