I think that there is something that is not being considdered here. This is the ability to use a frontend to view categories of software that you may want to install, to easily see what is available, and to have a simple way to query for specific programs. Yes, I know that it is possible to do some of this with yum and apt-get as they are, but I believe that more people would try out more new apps if they had an easy way to install them. I regularily use symantec as a frontend to apt-get. I look at it about once a week to see if there are any interesting new projects in the categories that I use. On Saturday 08 May 2004 19:25, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I personally feel that doing work from xterm is beneficial. In the Linux > world, many people say that RH/Fedora babies their users. They say that > everything is handed to us and that we dont have to work for it. For > instance the anaconda installer, gentoo users have much to say about > that. I like using Fedora, but I also want to learn unix, so I try to > use xterm as much as I can. > > Austin > > On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 10:09, Jason Knight wrote: > > 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.
