Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:11:03 am Temlakos wrote: > This isn't totally academic. I also administer a Web server, and I find > that a command-line interface is the only way that I can do any kind of > installation or upgrade. (I have to connect using secure-shell.) Might > as well learn

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread stan
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:11:03 -0500 Temlakos wrote: > On 12/16/2010 10:29 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:01:45 -0500 > > Temlakos wrote: > > > > > >> Does yumex still preserve this group-searching > >> capability? > >> > > I've given up on all the GUIs. I just use thin

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Temlakos
On 12/16/2010 10:29 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:01:45 -0500 > Temlakos wrote: > > >> Does yumex still preserve this group-searching >> capability? >> > I've given up on all the GUIs. I just use things like > "yum search", etc. > > All the GUIs seem to have decided (on

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:01:45 -0500 Temlakos wrote: > Does yumex still preserve this group-searching > capability? I've given up on all the GUIs. I just use things like "yum search", etc. All the GUIs seem to have decided (on the basis of apparent total urban legend) to split into the GUI half a

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Temlakos wrote: > 2.KPackagekit does not allow very good searching within groups of > packages anymore--not in F14, it doesn't. That feature was inadvertantly not enabled properly, and an updated kpk is coming soon that should fix it. -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/12/10 15:01, Temlakos wrote: > Everyone: > > Some package-management questions: > > 1.The package called "smart" doesn't seem to work anymore. It seems > to me that it can't keep up with its channel files. I wonder why F14 > even has a version of "smart" in its repos, if we already have y