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

[Michael A. Peters]

On 03/23/2005 10:52:40 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:
> 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.

yum does this, I would expect pup would too.

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