We will soon be at FC4 and system-config-packages will stillfall short

[Roger Grosswiler]

>
> On 03/23/2005 10:52:40 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:
>> Dawid Zamirski wrote:
>>> seth vidal wrote:
>>>
>>>>> System-config-packages really needs, I would say, requires,
>>>>> an option allowing to see everything instead of just a subset of
>>>>> the
>>>>> distribution like presently.  Yes, I filed an RFE a loooong
>>>>> time ago.  But FC4 will be still another release of Fedora
>>>>> where most of the distribution is not visible from
>>>>> system-config-packages so the only solution is use RPM from
>>>>> the command line, while fighting dependencies and trying to
>>>>> find what CD has the required package.
>>
>> On a related topic, I agree it would be good to have complete
>> control over the package selection, what I would like even
>> better would be the return of the list of additional packages
>> needed to satisfy the dependencies of the chosen packages.
>>
>> Often times, one selects a single small package with out
>> knowing its dependencies and suddenly pulls in a ton of
>> stuff that was not wanted.
>
> yum does this, I would expect pup would too.
>
> --
hopefully, gyum will be quickly in the extras, in my opinion it is a real good "replacement" for
system-config-packages, as yum even resolves the dependencies. Unfortunately, i did not test it that much, i use
almost yum in the shell ;-)

Isn't pup for printers??

Roger