what is this fluxbox addition called?

W. Guy Thomas mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Mon Oct 11 01:41:22 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 20:14, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 11.10.2004 schrieb W. Guy Thomas um 2:39:
> 
> > and why would anyone make a system as great as yum and require different
> > instructions per web site?
> > that's insane.
> 
> I don't understand your "intervention" or complaint. yum is a tool to
> handle repositories. Which to use lies in the hand of the user. The
> syntax is always the same. By default the Fedora Core and update
> repository is configured. If you want to use different or additional
> then please configure them. There is nothing to whine about. This is
> btw. The same with both other "frontends" and dependency managers for
> rpm: up2date and apt-rpm. Be lucky that you have such tools and no need
> to handle the dependencies and download of rpms by hand ;)
> 
> > =G
> 
> Alexander
> 

The web portion of an application should be ubiquitous and not require a
reconfiguration per site.
Yum itself could and should require many parameters, but to change the
option of using $releasever and $basearch and require editing per site
takes away the power of yum and what it could be.

My .02. Deal with it.

=G




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