On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:57 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:01 -0500, Will H. Backman wrote: > > Within Redhat I started with control-panel and glint. > > I have progressed through gnome-rpm, gnome-linuxconf, and Update Agent. > > Now I have yum and the system-config-* tools. > > Am I now looking at something called Pup? > > > > I think the tools are getting better all the time, but I think the name > > changes hurt the manageability. > > Would you rather the name stayed the same but not one bit of the old > code be used? None of the old options used, none of the old > documentation relevant, etc etc...? No... If the functionality changes (major changes in parameter or paradigm, not merely enhancements) then there needs to be a change. I agree with changing the name. > Pup is new software. Needs a new name. up2date still exists in RHEL, > and won't be replaced. How confusing would it be to have an up2date in > Fedora that is completely different from the up2date in RHEL? As I said, it needs a name change. I would have changed the name on the various versions of pump (except I was in the camp screaming to DUMP PUMP) and I was very unhappy with the change in stunnel that broke all my SSL based VPN tunnels on an upgrade. > Progress means new thinking, new applications, and new names. These are > mentioned in release notes, package lists, mailing lists, blogs, etc... > -- > Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) > Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) > GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) > Was I helpful? Let others know: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating Mike -- Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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