On Wednesday 04 June 2008 00:35:08 Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've put together a small ncurses application for removing unnecessary > > packages and their dependencies from the system. > > If you create a full featured clone of aptitude on top of yum/rpm I will > love you long time. Aptitude is the most awesome tool I have ever seen for > cleaning up package cruft and interactively resolving arcane dep problems. > Why can't yum's dep resolving be instantaneous? ;) > > Is there any recent success in getting aptitude itself to run on Fedora? It > worked long ago in the days of FC3 but then it broke with newer versions of > apt-rpm.. I don't know about aptitude, but I use apt as my package manager. Synaptic is a great GUI for managing packages with apt, but I hardly ever use it (it works when I do though). One of the first things I do with a fresh install is `yum install synaptic`. --Ben -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
