On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:11 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > I think the biggest gripe about YUM is the lack of a standard GUI, and
> > YumEx has had compatibility issues in the past with newer YUM versions.
> > SmartPM focuses on solving cross-repository issues and comes with a GUI
> > as standard.
> >
> > All-in-all, use the tool that is supported by the distro. That is YUM.
> > No, there is no GUI for it that is supported officially, hence some of
> > the complaints. But I'm keeping my eye on SmartPM for the future.
>
> I have yet to see any advantage to a GUI package manager. But, then
> again, that's just me.
I was reading this thread and the same thing kept coming to my mind.
For the task it does, yum doesn't need a GUI interface. There's a time
and place and task when GUI is right. But the world seems to be
forgetting that there is also a time and place and task for the command
line.
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Joe Klemmer <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux/UNIX System Administrator | Linux Instructor | Resident Hacker
