Why don't you guys like synaptic?

[Temlakos]

I've been a Synaptic user for a long time. To address your specific
issue, try looking for fedora.us apt repositories. Several times I've
done Synaptic upgrades that have made the red flashing exclamation point
(that's "screamer" in the UK) disappear.

One problem I have is that the atrpms repos sometimes produce conflicts
with regular Fedora Core repos, so I have to wait a week for the
conflicts to resolve. That's happened twice in the last four weeks.

Other than that, I would encourage the Fedora developers to develop a
port of Synaptic to Fedora Core and distribute it with the OS. Failing
that, however, you can always install it yourself.

Temlakos

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:31, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I think synaptic (GUI RPM package manager) is the greatest!  Since FC1, 
> I've like it. You can see how much space packages take, you can add ones 
> you don't have already and did not know about by browsing the list, you 
> can find upgrades on various servers.
> 
> But I don't hear any talk about it in here. Instead, you like that 
> boring old yum that has no pointy-clicky pizzazz and makes my head hurt 
> with syntax and fancy footwork. Synaptic used to be front-and-center in 
> the FC1 support web sites, but now it disappears from them.  Why?
> 
> For example, the "Fedora Core 2 Tips and Tricks" page, which I have 
> found helpful, has dropped reference to synaptic
> 
> http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc2-tips.php
> 
> up2date has very few of the synaptic features, you know. up2date doesn't 
> list all available packages, doesn't let you see how many megs each one 
> takes after installation. Doesn't help you delete packages and figure 
> out dependencies.
> 
> The only problem I have with synaptic is figuring how to change my 
> configuration to point at FC tests and upgrades. So if you guys would 
> use synaptic too, then maybe you would post info on how I should 
> configure my repository settings so I can keep up with FC testing.
> 
> ??
> 
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