On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:42:48 +0100, Jean Francois Martinez <jfm512@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I would strongly support just "stealing" teh system-config-packages like > modified by the Aurox people (http://www.aurox.org) as an interim > measure. Have the aurox people attempted to communicate their changes back to the upstream development process for the tool? I would strongly encourage anyone who is making modifications to existing tools to at least attempt to work with upstream developers for the codebase, so that useful modifications can be rolled back into the mainline project, so we can avoid unnecessary discussion about leaping across to an alternative codebase. Can you point me to discussion where the aurox developers have presented their modifications to the existing system-config-package developers? Either a bugticket with attached patches or a mailinglist archive url would be adequate. > Not having a quarter-decent package management tool is really > hurting Fedora (IMHO the lack of a GUI or TUI precludes using yum > a package management tool, it is presently more of an automatic updater) > You are right, and I haven't. I just attributed to yum the sins of > up2date who at times picks mirrors 12 time zones away from me. Then configure an alternative mirror list. There are alternative mirrorlists available at the same web directory where yum and up2date retrieve mirrorlist information from http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/ -jef