On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:11 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
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.
I was reading this thread and the same thing kept coming to my mind. For the task it does, yum doesn't need a GUI interface. There's a time and place and task when GUI is right. But the world seems to be forgetting that there is also a time and place and task for the command line.