My question here is why is the fedora team wasting so much time developing up2date and system-config-packages when synaptic is already an excellent replacement. Even though it uses apt, worst case would be to get the latest source and code in support for yum then. I have had nothing but problems with up2date. I have had packages fail to install and yet appear to be installed as far as up2date is concerned, system-config-packages though its getting better still has a ways to go before it has the features that synaptic has. If the developers choose to continue to use up2date and system-config-packages, I will continue to use the products during the rest of the test phase but when Fedora Core 2 is released I plan on switching to synaptic. Synaptic is full of features, stable and fast. I look foward to seeing what everyone has to say on this subject. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools