On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM, elison.niven@xxxxxxxxx <elison.niven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fedora is a feature rich Linux distribution containing the latest advancements > in open source software and I simply love Fedora. > > Why does Fedora still decide to use yum? The package management system of > Fedora is still very primitive. > > Here are my reasons why yum needs to go or needs *major* changes: > > 1) yum's interface (command line) is non-interactive. I always fail to > understand why it is > taking so long. "Setting up update process" stays for more than 1 minute at > times! (On a fairly fast PC with high speed internet connection). Atleast it > should show the user some progress as to what it is doing. > > 2) Quitting by CTRL-C isn't very easy. Is it? > > 3) On 64-bit machines, there *always* come up some issues with i686 packages > and protected multilib versions. > > 4) I have used Fedora for more than 5 years, I have faced "Unable to retreive > repository information repomd.xml" for like infinite times. Yes, the error > eventually gets resolved but it still comes again and again. > > 5) Need for autocomplete to work properly in package name argument of command > line when pressing TAB. It is painfully slow. > > 6) yum requires to download repository information separately for each user. > > 7) yum is strangely clubbed with package-cleanup, > yum-complete-transaction and I don't know what else. > > These are my ramblings about yum. I know I could have filed a few of the above > as bugs and may be help to resolve them, But someone really needs to address > the bigger issue that is yum's design philosophy rather than just solve bugs in > yum. > > Rather than providing me workarounds or solutions to make it work better, > Fedora needs to recognise that yum is really a huge pain to work with. > > I will share one experience I had. Yesterday I did yum --enable-repo=updates > update on Fedora 16. It gave me an error stating protected multi-lib versions > of a dozen or so packages. Running package-cleanup --clean-dupes > removed 691 packages > leaving my system crippled. It removed the entire KDE and also network manager. > Now I unable to login to GNOME shell and not able to connect to any network. I > had to take backup using recovery mode before proceeding to reinstall. > > I now need to reinstall my operating system. Reason : yum screwed up. > And these are the issues only regarding to the command line yum, The > GUI front-end to yum has more issues. > > I do not intend to criticise any of the developers but only suggest > that yum *really* needs major changes. > Keep up the good work. > > Thanks and Best Regards, > Elison I forgot to add: 8) Yum cannot use an iso image as a repo without mounting it. Yast in suse allows to directly use iso images as repos. Thanks and Best Regards, Elison -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
