Re: FC3 (and beyond) wishlist

[Jim Cornette <music-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Backlund wrote:

> > - Red Carpet (+ Daemon) as preferred dependency manager. It is faster 
> > than yum, written partly in python (unlike apt),
> >  has a much better graphical frontend than apt (Red Carpet vs. 
> > Synaptic), handles both installs, removals and updates
> >  (unlike up2date). The only disadvantage as I see it, is that it was 
> > developed by
> >  the number one competitor (Ximian, now Suse/Ximian/Novell), so I 
> > suppose this one would be out of the question (?).
> >    
>
>  
I tested this out recently to find out if there were any broken 
dependencies and this feature exposed three versions of gcc-gnat. This 
program feature is worth inclusion into FC, with rc or integrated into 
another program.

> Out of the "replace up2date" question, since up2date is tied to Red Hat
> Network. Pushing a technology in Fedora that is closely connected to the
> competition and offers the same functionality (RC Enterprise) as RHN, is
> probably not the smartest thing to do. Although it would be nice to be
> able to use RC to talk to RHN...anyway, I still think it should be
> adopted, maybe to push yum into Extras, or to go into Extras itself. It
> is IMHO simply the best dep. manager out there.        
>  
Up2date works great for me on a non-rhel version. not including this 
program on FC would cut down on the exposure and on testing of up2date 
in general. This would seem counter-productive to remove this program 
from the fold. As to pushing yum into Fedora Extras, this would not make 
sense to me. Yum is a system maintenence program and seems to be core to 
maintaining the system for many. I use this when another program w/ 
similar functionality is disabled for some reason.

Jim