I think that there is something that is not being considdered here. This is
the ability to use a frontend to view categories of software that you may
want to install, to easily see what is available, and to have a simple way to
query for specific programs.
Yes, I know that it is possible to do some of this with yum and apt-get as
they are, but I believe that more people would try out more new apps if they
had an easy way to install them. I regularily use symantec as a frontend to
apt-get. I look at it about once a week to see if there are any interesting
new projects in the categories that I use.
On Saturday 08 May 2004 19:25, fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
I personally feel that doing work from xterm is beneficial. In the
Linux
world, many people say that RH/Fedora babies their users. They say that
everything is handed to us and that we dont have to work for it. For
instance the anaconda installer, gentoo users have much to say about
that. I like using Fedora, but I also want to learn unix, so I try to
use xterm as much as I can.
Austin
On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 10:09, Jason Knight wrote:
> Yum is such a great package management program (very well designed
> except maybe for having to get all the headers) and stable, yet for some
> reason we expect the average home user to bust out his/her x-term and
> learn the in's and out's of yum CLI usage? (not to mention config file
> management ). Sure you might say, there is apt and synaptic, a
> wonderfully userfriendly combination but again: these would require the
> usage of yum and text line repo management to install on any stock
> fedora system.
>
> I think it is seriously time to consider someone writing a yum frontend
> that could be included with the standard fedora desktop. With all of the
> gtk library resources available for python (what yum uses) I don't see
> it being more than a 'scratching an itch' project. Perhaps we could even
> get it out in time for FC3?
>
> Up2date could be used as a framework for which to build the GUI frontend
> around and synaptic code could also be used if needed.
>
> I think that this is something that needs to be seriously considered by
> developers and red hat people alike. For the betterment of the Fedora
> experience.