yum made simple

[mick]

Cobind (FC1 based) has developed a yum gui that works as a great front-end for yum...

Kinda like synaptic without the bells and whistles...

http://cobind.com/download_yumgui.html

There's a version for FC1 and FC2

[foolish]

I hate this gui. It's just terrible. It feels hackish, it's slow, it really needs some HIG-love. The packages doesn't provide a menu entry. Almost everything is wrong. However, it's a start.

[micha]

Yeah, this software is not that pretty, but as foolish said, it's a start, and it works...
I'm just waiting for the package management software planned by Fedora:
http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/specs/redhat-config-packages/

--Micha

[mick]

I don't recall saying it was fast or pretty!

"...it's a start"
THAT would be the operative phrase...

[ilja]

I like it, ok it's very simple, but you see all the packages as addition to the command line seems to be very nice. Thanks :)

[mpsii]

Just my two cents, but I feel that APT on Fedora is _much_ better than yum in general (speed and power). Synaptic is a great GUI for APT, as well.

I am not sure why people stick with YUM with APT is so much easier to configure.

[ilja]

If I would want to work with apt I would have installed debian ;)

[Ug]

Well i'd better uninstall Fedora then should I ilja?

[ilja]

Originally posted by Ug
Well i'd better uninstall Fedora then should I ilja?
No, I don't have in my mind to forbid apt for everyone! But imho to make it default for Fedora would kill yum and at same time something specifical that signs rpm out. There should be a development of apt4rpm but also for yum, so Fedora will have something individual.

Once in #fedora there was a sentence by I can't remember who, he said:
"If I would like to have a distribution without bugs I would have debian stable installed".
That's exactly my opinion. Ok, apt is very good, so if everyone will use only it there won't be this interesting feeling, that Linux has for me. Maybe I am much too much geek, but I stand for my right, that every Distribution should have its characteristical things.

[mpsii]

It is my opinion that if we would "standardize" on a single package management solution, that would be best. Whether I use .deb, .rpm, .tgz, or .abc packages, it would be great if I could got to the console and type "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" on any linux installation and have the expected results.

[ilja]

It is my opinion that if we would "standardize" on a single package management solution, that would be best. Whether I use .deb, .rpm, .tgz, or .abc packages, it would be great if I could got to the console and type "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" on any linux installation and have the expected results.
maybe you are right ...

[Thoreau]

That would make the programmers life easier also. They wouldn't have to worry about which distro will use thier package. Plus it would make the worldwide package managment awhole lot easier.

[kbradl1]

Anyone who has created a yum repository will appreciate yum-arch and the /etc/yum.conf settings. APT is great but requires too many steps for setting a repository.

[ilja]

No he doesn't speak about about a standard Package format (I would advice rpm :D ), but he is only speaking about the package manager. How would you as programmer have profit from a package manager? You would have to make for each distribution its own package, ok even with the same package system you have to - try to install a SuSe or Mandrake RPM.

[Ug]

And what about the choice between source code and pre-compiled programs? As distributed through a package management system? Gentoo's portage is very interesting.

[ilja]

hmm, I heard something about compiling a few days. I never tried it, but I don't think it's optimal.