On 16/11/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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.
I use yum, plus occasionally, I will use straight rpm. This works fine for me.
One SUPREME drawback I have found to all of the package managers like yum, synaptic and up2date is that they only update the programs you have on your system.
What if I want to get some new programs that I don't yet have? There are 1000s of programs on the official fedora discs and on extras, but there is no way for me to know what they are, so how could I know whether I want to install them, or even know that they exist, unless I scan the list?
I have spent hours scanning the directories, manually typing rpm -qip package.rpm for HUNDREDS of files, just to find out more and get a COUPLE of nice gems. At least KPackage lets you have some information about a program, but still, you need to look at each and every one.
Even what freshrpms and rpmforge do, giving a one-line description (very inadequate, but better than nothing) helps a LOT.
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