Is YUM superior to Synaptic ?? (was synaptic evolution)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jan 25 07:59:10 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 13:47 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Yum's GUI front end (there are two AFAIK) is gyum (for gnome) and it 
> includes a little nice applet too. Here's a link to it 
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/

Unfortunately gyum on FC3 is a hack that doesn't work properly with yum
2.1.x /etc/yum.repos.d repositories. A new GUI for yum, called "pup",
which will be tightly integrated with yum, is in progress and will
hopefully be part of FC4.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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