Call for Yum Frontend

[Jason Knight <tuxpenguin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yum is such a great package management program (very well designed 
except maybe for having to get all the headers) and stable, yet for some 
reason we expect the average home user to bust out his/her x-term and 
learn the in's and out's of yum CLI usage? (not to mention config file 
management ). Sure you might say, there is apt and synaptic, a 
wonderfully userfriendly combination but again: these would require the 
usage of yum and text line repo management to install on any stock 
fedora system.

I think it is seriously time to consider someone writing a yum frontend 
that could be included with the standard fedora desktop. With all of the 
gtk library resources available for python (what yum uses) I don't see 
it being more than a 'scratching an itch' project. Perhaps we could even 
get it out in time for FC3?

Up2date could be used as a framework for which to build the GUI frontend 
around and synaptic code could also be used if needed.

I think that this is something that needs to be seriously considered by 
developers and red hat people alike. For the betterment of the Fedora 
experience.

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Jason Knight
Fedora Core 2 Test 3 *x86_64*