We will soon be at FC4 and system-config-packages will still fall short

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Mar 23 22:26:33 UTC 2005


> System-config-packages really needs, I would say, requires,
> an option allowing to see everything instead of just a subset of the
> distribution like presently.  Yes, I filed an RFE a loooong
> time ago.  But FC4 will be still another release of Fedora
> where most of the distribution is not visible from
> system-config-packages so the only solution is use RPM from
> the command line, while fighting dependencies and trying to
> find what CD has the required package.  

system-config-packages needs to die.

The plan is for it to die.

Pup work is still going on. If you'd like to help, cvs is available pup
and I'm sure paul would except intelligent patches.

-sv





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