No yum GUI in core?

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Sat Apr 15 09:31:31 UTC 2006


Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 4/15/06, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de> wrote:
>   
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>     
>>> On 4/15/06, Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Is it just me or is there no GUI to make use of Yum available from the
>>>>> CD installtion? If so, would the GUI be preferable for people not
>>>>> comfortable with using the command line ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just wondering.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peace
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> It is in the "applications" or "main" menu as Add/Remove Software. The
>>>> name of the package/program is pirut.
>>>>
>>>> rh
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I just loaded that up. It seems to be what it has always has been, a
>>> manager of the software available from the install media, ie. no real
>>> connection to yum. Correct me if I am wrong.
>>>
>>> --
>>> As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> you are wrong ...
>> it does not even supports media it uses yum for software installation.
>> you can also install packages that aren't on the install media like the
>> extras packages or any other repo you set up in yum.
>>
>>     
> Okay, you are most certainly right. I suppose I was misled by it's
> browse feature which looks exactly like the package selectory in
> Anaconda.
>
> I must say though, the tool isn't very helpful at first look.
>
> But thanks for clearing that up.
>
> --
> As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
>
>   
both pirut and pup seems not to update the gui when correctly.. 
sometimes it takes up to 2min to redraw everything, maybe because it 
waits for something else to finish (yum). This looks broken to me, it 
should have a thread for gui and one for the backend.




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