RE: [CentOS] Why is yum not liked by some?

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 at 1:06pm, Bryan J. Smith wrote

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I think the biggest gripe about YUM is the lack of a standard GUI, and YumEx has had compatibility issues in the past with newer YUM versions. SmartPM focuses on solving cross-repository issues and comes with a GUI as standard.

All-in-all, use the tool that is supported by the distro. That is YUM. No, there is no GUI for it that is supported officially, hence some of the complaints. But I'm keeping my eye on SmartPM for the future.

I have yet to see any advantage to a GUI package manager. But, then again, that's just me.

Copy that. Altough, I must say, that Linux-On-The-Desktop-Users _need_ some GUI, usually...

Best, Oliver