Make Yumex Default Package Manager

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 06:47:25PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Ryan Lerch  wrote:
> 
> > The line was drawn in Software to define an "Application" as something
> > that has a desktop file -- aka a GUI application. Although you could argue
> > that mutt, vim, git etc are applications also but users are going to use
> > them on a command line, so i think the assumption that was made was that
> > those users would be comfortable using the command line to install them.
> > <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop>
> >
> 
> I have noted this before but this isn't a good assumption.  I am very
> comfortable using yum,dnf etc but I would prefer to use GNOME Software
> since I get the benefit of ratings and while I am using GNOME Software to
> install a bunch of apps, picking up git and mutt (or even graphical apps
> that don't ship with appdata etc) along the way is easier than mentally
> switching contexts depending on whether the app fits GNOME Software
> requirements to be listed.

"This assumption doesn't fit me" != "This isn't a good assumption."
Revisiting this approach on the basis of how you and I use our systems
is not constructive because we are atypical by definition.

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