on 04/26/2007 11:40 PM Kam Leo wrote: > On 4/25/07, William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > Unfortunately, the documentation is a work in progress. It seems to be in progress quite for a while now. I'm using smart for more almost two years now and I agree with Reek Moore, that I'm stuck with it only thanks to its comprehensive and user-friendly interface, otherwise I would give up pretty soon. -- regards, Oleksandr Korneta /The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./
