What to use for pirut??

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bruce Byfield wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:47 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
>> On 2008-05-11, Beartooth Sciurivore <beartooth at swva.net> wrote:
>>
>>>         There's a thread (begun April 27) on this list, which has gotten 
>>> surprisingly little attention. It claims pirut is to be obsoleted. Is 
>>> this true?? Is there some other front end for yum that has the same 
>>> abilities to find apps, by type and by list, without knowing their exact names
>>> -- and then install or remove them??
>> yumex?
> 
> I think the idea is to move to packagekit, although I'd have to check to
> be completely sure.

Pirut got replaced by PackageKit or more specifically gpk-application. 
Yumex is still in the repository as a alternative.

Rahul