On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:55 -0600, Stephen J Smoogen wrote: > 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? > > > > You are definately thinking way outside of the box there my friend. > > > The standard operating method for any OpenSource project is to.. look at > existing products, think their code is crap and only a rewrite will fix > it, start a new project on SourceForge/Freshmeat with your complete > rewrite of code, start an IRC channel, and wait for developers to send > you patches. > > After 6 months, either send out a flaming email about how the OpenSource > community was too jealous of your code to help you out OR have a little > community of users that worship your code and they will send out regular > emails to any other project that they should tow the line and join your > project or fear the Jihad. > > Trying to work with existing code is almost revolutionary in concept. You forgot to close your sarcasm tag. here. I'll do it for you. </sarcasm> you know. re-reading - it might be a </cynical> tag. :) -sv
