pirut aggravations

[Kam Leo]

On 4/14/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:17 -0400, Dan wrote:
> > As I've noted above, give yumex a try, it's much further along in
> > development, you might like it better. Takes a lot longer to read in
> > the metadata though, cause it is very meticulous, but at least 0.99 is
> > a lot more streamlined graphically than 0.44 was. And you can always
> > turn off the refresh at startup.
>
> Have they improved the behaviour since 0.44 that makes turning off
> refresh a useless thing to do?  In as much that if you turn it off, sure
> the program starts quick, but you can't do anything with it.  You have
> to refresh to install/remove/update something.  Without it, all you have
> are empty windows.  The only thing that you can do with it, in that
> state, is adjust preferences or tick/untick repos.
>
> --

Try Smart Package Manager. The rpms (smart, smart-gui, and
smart-update) are available in Extras..