Fedora's mid-life crisis
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 6 06:24:04 UTC 2007
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> The times I've filed RFEs for stuff like making pirut to be more
> informative of a variety of things that CLI YUM does (for example, total
> size of download, individual package size, etc) are not mere "cosmetic"
> changes, they have a direct impact in every day's use (for example in
> pup it would help quite a bit to prioritize updates and estimate
> download times). Another thing that NEEDS to get implemented in
> Pirut/pup is a speed meter and a "mirror change" mechanism (just like
> ctrl+c for CLI YUM) to: a) be able to estimate the time of
> updates/downloads and b) be able to switch to faster mirrors when a
> package is getting too slow download speeds. Another proposed feature I
> remember filing was a mechanism to "manage" multiple repositories right
> within Pirut. At most I got an "It is planned" answer, but no status on
> how or when will it be implemented. All in all, the tools are fine, but
> they need much more polish still.
Use bugzilla. A rant here doesn't change anything. The Apt page already
explains the choice of Yum in detail. Repository management has been
discussed in fedora-devel if you want to know the details.
Rahul
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