On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:54 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi Ric; > > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:16 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 00:50 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > By the way is yumex ever going to produce a help manual? > > > Bill, I highly recommend smart. You get a nice gui that shows every rpm > > out there with a nice search function. If you search for Xine, you'll > > see what is available and the ones you currently have installed. Really > > nice. IMHO it's beats the pants off of yumex. Give it a whirl! Ric > > Thanks Ric. I had planned to give 'smart' a whirl when I install Fedora > 7. Not that the version/core number matters; its just that I have so > many small and large learning curves over the next 6 weeks that I have > given myself to climb. A new install of fedora seemed like a good > benchmark to add new applications to try out. > > By the way, does 'smart' have a good manual. 'man' yum and yumex > --no-help, are pretty rudimentary if you want to go deeper than just > trial and error. What I liked about smart is that if you prod it a little and dink around with it, it all comes perfectly clear how to use it! THAT is what I like in an app, that you can wave hands hovery hovery and it comes to life and does cool stuff. I had a couple of questions and got them resolved on the list, so I've never peeked at the docs... and I'm a complete idiot. :) Ric --
