Robin Laing wrote: > I do agree that rpm is not the best things for installing software due > to dependencies but it would be nice to see a listing of what packages Well to be clear rpm itself is really good IMO. Trying to acquire rpms individually when there is a cluster of dependent ones is what sucks and perhaps unfairly has the name "rpm Hell". RPM in combination with a depsolver like yum is really pretty good! > are available on livna via a web browser. Yesterday I typed in yum > provides gdb and it took almost an hour to get the results. This is > only an example but a listing of packages would be nice. > > It would give me the option to download the rpm or to enable livna and > then use yum. If you get stuck with a slow mirror it can take ages. I just tried it and it finished in around 1 minute. > Sometimes I am looking for something weird and I find an answer on > Google but it doesn't help if I cannot find the package. Livna may have > the package but I cannot do a simple search of the site to know. Yep. > How about a link from the package that opens a download page that > explains the benefits of Yum over straight rpm. Including links to the > various setup files and a howto to setup and user yum for noobs. I think up2date is still exerting a confusing influence over people new to Fedora. Hopefully soon enough something with a similar UI based on "yum inside" will replace it and the Add/Remove packages app and the confusion will go away. -Andy
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