Best Way to Handle Packages

[Kelly Miller]

Sorry, I meant the former.  I used to like going through Smart to see what
packages are available, but without the RPM groupings it's harder to do in
Yumex (plus Fedora is phasing them out).

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>
> 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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>
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> lists.
>
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