Best Way to Handle Packages

[Tim]

On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 16:58 -0500, Kelly Miller wrote:
> I notice a lot of people mention just using yum/dnf directly, but I'm
> wondering what people normally use to just check out new packages.

If you mean ones we haven't known about before, I've occasionally
searched yum for keywords of things that might interest me hoping to
find something to do a job.

If you mean information about newly released packages (e.g. updates),
I'm signed up to the package-announce list.  Any time an update is
released, I get an email about it.  If the email doesn't provide
anything particularly descriptive about it (as too many don't), then I
can look at the packages website, or do a yum info packagename.

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