It would appear that on Apr 7, duncan brown did say: > well, the big drawback to redcarpet is all they're really doing is > mirroring redhat's fedora packages, not really adding anything to the > mix. (now, if there was ximian desktop with redcarpet, then i'd listen =]) > so, what this equates to the user (but not technically) is a gui yum. > > if you install apt/synaptic, then you have the added advantage of > getting all of the extra packages that other people have created for redhat. > > -d Hello Duncan, You make a good point in favor of apt/synaptic. I'm still new to fedora, I only just now tried yum, and except for NOT finding things like pine And LyX (which were both available for FC1 on dag) I found it a good program. (in fact I especially liked it for it's konsole interface that I suspect would still work at run level 3 in case I trash X somehow (don't ask, I'm still not sure how I did it, but I once managed to do that on a one of my linux installations...) So I wouldn't change to a different installer/updater package to get a slick gui interface. But getting access to those extra packages... Actually I there was a pro redcarpet reference to a web based fedora core 1 discussion (I think it was this thread) But in it I found a pro yum counter point with a link to a VERY comprehensive example yum.conf file that included MANY repositories and mirrors, including dag. http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/samples/yum.conf Can you tell me of any reason besides a preference for gui pretty-fication, That I should use either redcarpet or apt/symantic rather than simply letting yum have this config. And would you know how bad a possible conflict between fedora extras and dag might get? The yum.conf example has comments that suggest: ############################ ## Alternate Repositories ## ############################ # Uncomment these to use them -- note that some packages # from these repositories may conflict with the fedora.us # packages. If you use these repositories, you may wish to # comment-out the fedora.us and livna.org repositories. I'd heard that the livna.org repository contained some unstables, So I already commented out it and all the testing repositories in the yum.conf example. My biggest question to you (and any other updated guru's here, is: If I uncomment the dag and don't comment out the fedora.us, is there any likelihood of a conflict destroying my fedora's viability???? I mean if it's easy to identify the offending package and removing it will unbreak whatever the conflict messed up, I'd like to leave dag available ( I'm already using a manually installed the rpm for pine from dag) And it would be nice to use yum to update it... Thanks -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>>
