> GYUM is a UI abomination, but otherwise, it works. I sent in a big list > of UI suggestions and reasoning to the GYUM devs and never got a > response - no idea if they plan on fixing the UI to be sane or leaving > it the ugly, unusable mess that it is. > > It'd probably be easier to just write a fresh GUI from scratch using the > proper tools, especially if yum 2.1.0 is as easy to wrap as Seth is > indicating. Here's a wacky idea, What about using system-config-packages as the front end? That might be a useful project, hooking s-c-p and yum up together. -sv