2009/9/12 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 09/12/2009 10:46 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> Then there is the "synaptic" tool, which makes all fedora gui update >>> tools look like something scraped off the bottom of a bridge :-(. >>> Since doing updates is a common operation visible to all users >>> across all distros, I've always suspected that synaptic was >>> the primary reason ubuntu was somewhat more popular. >> >> Synaptic is definitely the best gui package manager I have used. Its so >> easy to do everything, even distro upgrades are a few clicks away! > > That has nothing to do with the packaging format however. Synaptic is > available in Fedora as well btw. > > Rahul > Does it use rpm as the back end? I thought synaptic is an exclusively dpkg/apt-get front end. I am more at ease with rpm and yum on the cmd line. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
