On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 19:05, duncan brown wrote:
Havoc Pennington said:
To me a separate GUI based on the backends used is pretty darn weird. I don't see how it's sane to install both a yum gui and an up2date gui by default for example.
not only that, but you'd be re-inventing the wheel. apt should be a part of fedora core, along with synaptic. i know that there are problems with multi-arch procs and apt, but why not devote the time and effort into getting apt up to snuff (along with synaptic) and have that as your update manager?
To me the synaptic UI is designed around exposing all the functionality of apt and RPM, rather than around a set of target users and their goals/tasks.
http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/action.html
So I would say it's possible to do much better on the GUI.
As far as the backend implementation of apt vs. yum vs. up2date, I don't really care, but I know the people who work on them have some strong opinions.
Havoc