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

[Raymond Lillard]

Dawid Zamirski wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
>>> 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.    

On a related topic, I agree it would be good to have complete
control over the package selection, what I would like even
better would be the return of the list of additional packages
needed to satisfy the dependencies of the chosen packages.

Often times, one selects a single small package with out
knowing its dependencies and suddenly pulls in a ton of
stuff that was not wanted.

Case in point, I typically stick with the Gnome family
of tools and do not load KDE. (Let's NOT have a flame-fest
here).  I have on occasion selected a package with has an
unexpected KDE dependency an in comes a flood libraries
and related stuff.  I would like to have a chance to
approve the package list before committing to the install.

Earlier versions of RedHat had this feature.  I miss it.

Regards,
Ray