Dawid Zamirski wrote:
seth vidal wrote:
System-config-packages really needs, I would say, requires,
an option allowing to see everything instead of just a subset of the
distribution like presently. Yes, I filed an RFE a loooong
time ago. But FC4 will be still another release of Fedora
where most of the distribution is not visible from
system-config-packages so the only solution is use RPM from
the command line, while fighting dependencies and trying to
find what CD has the required package.
On a related topic, I agree it would be good to have complete
control over the package selection, what I would like even
better would be the return of the list of additional packages
needed to satisfy the dependencies of the chosen packages.
Often times, one selects a single small package with out
knowing its dependencies and suddenly pulls in a ton of
stuff that was not wanted.
Case in point, I typically stick with the Gnome family
of tools and do not load KDE. (Let's NOT have a flame-fest
here). I have on occasion selected a package with has an
unexpected KDE dependency an in comes a flood libraries
and related stuff. I would like to have a chance to
approve the package list before committing to the install.
Earlier versions of RedHat had this feature. I miss it.
Regards,
Ray