Yum has for now two serious shortcomings 1) It has no browser, even a curses based one. You cannot, like with apt or urpmi, browse what is available, select what you are interested in and have it installed 2) It does not deal with removable media. Unlike what happens with apt or urpmi it will not prompt you for the CD containing what you need. End result is that, since I have ADSL I often end downloading packages I have on CD but no heart for going through the ordeal of hunting dependencies on three CDs.. Copying everything on hard disk is a possibility but there are still plenty of boxes with 5 to 10 G disks where using 20% or more of disk space for keeping packages is not an option. And plenty of people who have huge disks (80g or more) and who are psychologically disturbed about keeping whole distros on disk. The problem of the huge download of headers is a PITA who only happens once. The two problems I mentionned happen every day. Are there any plans to fix them? -- Jean Francois Martinez <jfm512@xxxxxxx>
