Pirut issues

[Nikhil Fernandes]

Well, I can't see that this behaviour is by design, because it removed
software that was _not_ selected for removal. I don't think it's a UI
issue, because I've used Debian and Synaptic before, and Pirut is very
similar in UI, but I wasn't sure if it was a one-off corruption, a known
bug, or something specific to the way i did things.

Nikhil Fernandes

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 09:40 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 4/8/06, Nikhil Fernandes <njfernandes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I made the jump to FC5 two days ago, and it's great, but the
> > installation was painful.
> >
> > To begin with, the FC5 install wouldn't go through at all(Possibly a
> > problem with the DVD), so I had to wipe my disk, install a minimal
> > install of FC4 and then upgrade. That worked fine.
> >
> > Now I tried to add various software groups, and Pirut went nuts on me. I
> > spent a long time selecting the packages, and then after grinding away,
> > it spat out a bunch of dependency errors at me. I was connected to the
> > internet, and I had installed nothing outside of the core and extras
> > repos, so it didn't make sense. I tried to install some of the packages
> > that had unresolved dependencies (most of them seemed to do with mono -
> > f-spot was one of them) through yum, and that worked fine.
> >
> > I then went back to Pirut, and selected a smaller group of packages, and
> > the install went smoothly. Started Pirut again to add some more
> > software, and that also went fine - until i realised that Pirut had
> > removed a bunch of software (openoffice. evolution) that it didn't tell
> > me it was going to remove. I did this cycle a few more times, and found
> > stuff like gnome and kde being removed at random. I eventually gave up
> > and did the entire install through yum.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this issue? I couldn't find anything in bugzilla.
> >
> > Nikhil Fernandes
> >
> 
> As the heading "Add/Remove Software" suggests pirut does remove
> software. File a bug if you feel the UI is misleading or could use
> improvement.
>