Call for Yum Frontend

Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 9 22:05:09 UTC 2004


On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:09:30PM -0500, Jason Knight wrote:

> Subject: Call for Yum Frontend
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> Yum is such a great package management program (very well designed 
> except maybe for having to get all the headers) and stable, yet for some 
> reason we expect the average home user to bust out his/her x-term and 
> learn the in's and out's of yum CLI usage? (not to mention config file 
> management ).

The ability to use yum download sites is built into up2date.
Perhaps the better place to work is on up2date.

Both have a common issue with the config file.



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