On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:54:31 -0500 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > >> Huh? Synaptic is the one reason I might consider switching to > >> ubuntu. You want to talk deficient and awkward, compare packagekit > >> to synaptic and decide which is deficient. > >> > > I have never had rpm, yum or PackageKit crash on me, but that is a > > signature trait of Synaptic. It generally crashes about halfway > > into downloading about 400 MB of updates, messes up the package > > list of pending updates in the process, and it becomes impossible > > to resume the update. And add to that, that in getting the 400 MB, > > you just spent about 2-3 hours waiting and still didn't get the > > system updates. I speak from experience and have done the procedure > > more than 2 or 3 times, with the same frustrating result, and not > > with the same release or installation media. > > Can't you still just: > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > in a terminal window and save the GUIness for when you want to pick a > new package or two? > Dag burn it, Les, there you go again using logic ;) -- Best regards, Chris () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
