Call for Yum Frontend
Davy Brion
ralinx at pandora.be
Sun May 9 10:38:05 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 04:24, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 8, 2004, Jason Knight <tuxpenguin at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > I think it is seriously time to consider someone writing a yum
> > frontend that could be included with the standard fedora desktop.
>
> Err... In what sense is up2date not that?
up2date was modified to support yum... a new GUI frontend that was
designed for yum will always be better than a solution which was just
modified to support yum.
up2date is not bad, but for a newbie user it's not a good program. A new
fedora user can't use up2date to install new programs. Using the
"Add/Remove Applications" tool from the menu isn't very good either
because it doesn't support external repos plus i can imagine it would be
confusing for new users that they would need to use 2 completely
different tools to install software, and then to update their software.
I agree with Jason Knight that a real GUI frontend for Yum should be
written. It should be able to use _every_ piece of functionality that
Yum offers, in a way that is easy for the user. It would definitely
make Fedora easier to use for new users.
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