Like I said, I like the CLI. The user community I work with,
(corporately and around my neighborhood) does not do CLI. RTFM is not
an answer for them.
By this definition all the command line tool sucks. There is no need to
single out Yum I guess.
Click the big "List" button.
First, I will say that I did take another look at the package manager
and yes it does list all installed and available apps from all my
repos. The search tool works just like "yum list | grep [whatever]"
which is nice. The 'Big List Button" generates a list that I could see
might be imposing to a user, but if you have the viewpoint that users
should not be installing software (I agree in a corporate environment)
then who cares, right?
Generally users can install packages from groups which is provided as
the primary interface or search and install any package they want. If
they do want to list all the packages, then yes the choice might be
intimidating to them. Do you have any suggestions to improve the user
interface?
All told, after looking at it again, I have no problem with pointing
users at the package manger except that I REALLY don't want them using
the root password. Perhaps when PolicyKit can help there, but I think
the user should be challenged for his password rather than just get in
to package manager.
Yes. PolicyKit after its integrated with the rest of the system should
help here.
Rahul
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