On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 04:24, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On May 8, 2004, Jason Knight <tuxpenguin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I think it is seriously time to consider someone writing a yum > > frontend that could be included with the standard fedora desktop. > > Err... In what sense is up2date not that? up2date was modified to support yum... a new GUI frontend that was designed for yum will always be better than a solution which was just modified to support yum. up2date is not bad, but for a newbie user it's not a good program. A new fedora user can't use up2date to install new programs. Using the "Add/Remove Applications" tool from the menu isn't very good either because it doesn't support external repos plus i can imagine it would be confusing for new users that they would need to use 2 completely different tools to install software, and then to update their software. I agree with Jason Knight that a real GUI frontend for Yum should be written. It should be able to use _every_ piece of functionality that Yum offers, in a way that is easy for the user. It would definitely make Fedora easier to use for new users.
