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

[Tom]

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 23:09, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > 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??

Nope, that's cups

Tom


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