Help with yum

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Sat Oct 25 09:30:56 UTC 2003


On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Ionut Boldizsar wrote:

> Perhaps there will be a frontend for yum, as it is synaptic for apt.
> Then it will be real easy to manage yum.
> But the cli syntax is straight-forward for yum as we speak :)

from the perspective of someone who's been using yum only briefly, it's
simple enough that i think a GUI frontend would be overkill, particularly
since yum is *meant* to be run on a nightly basis to keep your system up
to date.

once something's automated like that, there's little value in a GUI.

rday





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