On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 20:34 +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > 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 I've been working on the HEAD branch of yum in order to make the proper abstractions to make a gui or $other interface much simpler to implement. As it is yum in versions 1.0.X or 2.0.X is not simple enough to use as a back end to a different front end. If you'd like to see how the progress is going for HEAD, feel free to check it out and read through the code. It's not functional right now so you can only look and follow along. I'd like to have a functional version soon for people to play with. Keep in mind this also changes the repository format to the new metadata format. > 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. some thought has been given to this, in fact. If you'd like for this to happen I think the best way would be the ability to tag a repository as containing removable media (automatic detection of removable media is not going to happen). I'd suggest a repository-specific tag of removable=yes or no would be the easiest way. > The problem of the huge download of headers is a PITA who only happens > once. The two problems I mentionned happen every day. and curiously enough this problem is going away, as are the headers. -sv
