Where is pirut?

Andrea mariofutire at googlemail.com
Sat May 17 16:01:53 UTC 2008


Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Andrea wrote:
>>> It seems pirut has been replaced by PackageKit.
>>>
>>> That would not be an issue unless:
>>>
>>> 1) it does not show the packages in groups. if I don't know the 
>>> package name, I'm lost
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by 1) since PackageKit does display groups and 
>> allow you to search etc.
> 
> I think he means that while you can search for packages, you can't 
> browse by selecting a group and seeing a complete list.
> yumex will do that, and I thought pirut did, too.
> 

Basically I would like to see again the list of groups (and packages contained) the same way as it 
happens during installation.
Of Fedora 7, pirut does exactly that.
Is PackageKit ready to replace pirut?




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