Hmm. On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 20:29 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: > 1. I'd like to add smart install to Extras. > > - It's written by the author of Synaptic and principal maintainer of > apt-get for RPM > - Its a replacement for yum / apt-get / up2date / synaptic / etc. > - It has both a CLI and GUI interface. > - The GUI version is GTK2, and looks exactly like Synaptic (oddly enough > being written by the same author). > - It works with Yum metadata repositories. > - Its faster than yum and apt-get as it downloads from multiple sources > simultaneously. It's written in Python, too! Very nice. Thanks for the tip... > I've been using it on Rawhide for months and it's fast, simple, and > reliable. > > 2. What's pup? Where can I find out more about it? What's it's > relationship to s-c-p? Pup is a project that has as a goal replacing the functionality of rhn-applet-gui + up2date. It is not now within its' scope to do ad-hoc package management like Synaptic. I know because I asked yesterday on the fedora config list. - C -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
