theWordy said: > It would appear that on Apr 7, duncan brown did say: > > 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. well, yum and apt both resolve dependencies for you, but yum doesn't really have a 'download-only' option, as far as i've seen (i could be wrong) which is something that apt has. so, for example, i have a cron job that runs the following: apt-get -qq update && apt-get -dqqy upgrade this updates my package list, and then only downloads the updated programs. this way, when i run synaptic, i don't have to wait for things to download. > > And would you know how bad a possible conflict between fedora extras and > dag might get? The yum.conf example has comments that suggest: i think dag relies on fedora's repository for dependencies. -d > > > Thanks > > -- > | ~^~ ~^~ > | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook > | ^ J(tWdy)P > | \___/ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot