On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:05 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:41 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > 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? > > Ya, that would work, too. ;-) > > Better also if you can get system-install-packages hooked up with those > two tools, so that when I grab a package from somewhere other than a > registered yum repository, dependencies can still be resolved and > installed. Funny, system-install-packages will resolve with the system packages (using the same stuff as system-config-packages; realistically, they're the same code with slightly different code paths for UI and one or two other things). The hope with hooking yum into things would be for this to be possible :) > It'd also be nice if yum supported 'temporary' repositories that were > passed to it on the command line or through library calls, so, for > example, an application RPM could include some meta-data pointing toa > repository containing dependencies, so users don't have to a) manually > add the repository to their yum.conf or b) manually download all the > dependencies. Hrmmm, that's an interesting thought. Although with yum 2.1, you can just grab a snippet and drop it in /etc/yum.repos.d (instead of having to modify /etc/yum.conf) which makes it a little bit easier to begin with. Jeremy
