On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 19:05, duncan brown wrote: > Havoc Pennington said: > > > To me a separate GUI based on the backends used is pretty darn weird. I > > don't see how it's sane to install both a yum gui and an up2date gui by > > default for example. > > not only that, but you'd be re-inventing the wheel. apt should be a part > of fedora core, along with synaptic. i know that there are problems with > multi-arch procs and apt, but why not devote the time and effort into > getting apt up to snuff (along with synaptic) and have that as your update > manager? > To me the synaptic UI is designed around exposing all the functionality of apt and RPM, rather than around a set of target users and their goals/tasks. http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/action.html So I would say it's possible to do much better on the GUI. As far as the backend implementation of apt vs. yum vs. up2date, I don't really care, but I know the people who work on them have some strong opinions. Havoc
