Livna Usability Assessment Assessment

[Robin Laing]

kwhiskers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16/11/05, *Rahul Sundaram* <sundaram at redhat.com 
> <mailto:sundaram at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>      >I think up2date is still exerting a confusing influence over
>     people new
>      >to Fedora.  Hopefully soon enough something with a similar UI based on
>      >"yum inside" will replace it and the Add/Remove packages app and the
>      >confusion will go away.
> 
> 
> I use yum, plus occasionally, I will use straight rpm. This works fine 
> for me.
> 
> One SUPREME drawback I have found to all of the package managers like 
> yum, synaptic and up2date is that they only update the programs you have 
> on your system.
> 
> What if I want to get some new programs that I don't yet have? There are 
> 1000s of programs on the official fedora discs and on extras, but there 
> is no way for me to know what they are, so how could I know whether I 
> want to install them, or even know that they exist, unless I scan the list?
> 
> I have spent hours scanning the directories, manually typing rpm -qip 
> package.rpm for HUNDREDS of files, just to find out more and get a 
> COUPLE of nice gems. At least KPackage lets you have some information 
> about a program, but still, you need to look at each and every one.
> 
> Even what freshrpms and rpmforge do, giving a one-line description (very 
> inadequate, but better than nothing) helps a LOT.
> -- 
> kwhiskers{
> 

This is why I like yumex (in extras).  I can go to the install and 
look at what is available.  I can search for games (for my kids you 
understand) and get a list.

I have tried smart but I have not had enough time to learn it so I am 
sticking with yumex for now.