On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:30 +0000, Fernando Morais wrote: > Hi everyone, > > for when is it scheduled to include a true package manager? > One that gives ther options to see all rpm's instaled, remove, install > new nes, and so on... > In the early stages of fedora, one of the test releases, before the FC > 1, came with a tool that does part of > what i said before, despite part of it's functions where disabled. But > it never was included before. Is there a reason for that? > > Because a grafical tool to do interface with yum woulld be great, so > some basic task could be done, like adding rpm's, removing, seeing all > the rpm's avaiable to install, and more. > And it could o a litle further, merge it with up2date and create only > one tool, that deals all the functions regarding the > managing of the rpm's, the detection of updates, and so on... > > Is there anything planned? There is a small group of people who have been discussing a lot of merging of code bases for FC4. Specifically: - s-c-p + the yum module code to use it as a graphical front end to access yum repositories. - repomd + mirrorlists possibly for anaconda I'd like to see both of these ready for FC4. -sv
