Fedora's mid-life crisis

[Rahul Sundaram]

Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:

> The times I've filed RFEs for stuff like making pirut to be more 
> informative of a variety of things that CLI YUM does (for example, total 
> size of download, individual package size, etc) are not mere "cosmetic" 
> changes, they have a direct impact in every day's use (for example in 
> pup it would help quite a bit to prioritize updates and estimate 
> download times). Another thing that NEEDS to get implemented in 
> Pirut/pup is a speed meter and a "mirror change" mechanism (just like 
> ctrl+c for CLI YUM) to: a) be able to estimate the time of 
> updates/downloads and b) be able to switch to faster mirrors when a 
> package is getting too slow download speeds. Another proposed feature I 
> remember filing was a mechanism to "manage" multiple repositories right 
> within Pirut. At most I got an "It is planned" answer, but no status on 
> how or when will it be implemented. All in all, the tools are fine, but 
> they need much more polish still.

Use bugzilla. A rant here doesn't change anything. The Apt page already 
explains the choice of Yum in detail. Repository management has been 
discussed in fedora-devel if you want to know the details.

Rahul