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. -- Joe Klemmer <joe at webtrek.com> Linux/UNIX System Administrator | Linux Instructor | Resident Hacker