No yum GUI in core?

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Sun Apr 16 13:04:48 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 14:28 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > Okay, you are most certainly right. I suppose I was misled by it's
> > browse feature which looks exactly like the package selectory in
> > Anaconda.
> >
> > I must say though, the tool isn't very helpful at first look.
> >
> > But thanks for clearing that up.
> Anaconda embeds pirut for its package selecting.  It's still very new 
> and will likely undergo more work in the FC6 timeframe.  It works with 
> the CD/DVD because yum supports local repositories, which is effectively 
> what the discs are, AIUI.

No the CD support uses some unique code to anaconda which is going to be
pushed into yum.  It's not the standard local repo code path.

Paul




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