[Mageia-discuss] GUI tools

[Lawrence A Fossi]

I want to be clear I wasn't suggesting replacing urpmi..more of a concern that one or more of the dev's onboard can maintain/improve on it over time. :) and was offing a possible alternative if not. 
Once Mageia is rolling along I'd like to see some enhancements for the gui in the mcc like Smart offers.. downgrading, locking packages, the ability 
to see the other packages(even if older) not just the current and possible upgrade. I know you can hunt down the urpmi skip list and edit it manually 
or downgrade through the cli but neither is beginner friendly.. Also the information in easy to read tabs you can see the full dependencies, what if replaces what it needs.. Again that info is retrievable from the cli...gui not so much. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maarten Vanraes" <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> 
To: mageia-discuss at mageia.org 
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 1:29:01 PM 
Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] GUI tools 

Op zondag 19 september 2010 18:30:07 schreef André Salaün: 
> Le Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:14:43 +0200 
> 
> Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> a écrit: 
> > Op zondag 19 september 2010 17:57:54 schreef Jan Ciger: 
> > > Hello, 
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote: 
> > > > Lawrence, I can't speak for the devs but my understanding is that 
> > > > Mageia will keep everything that makes Mandriva unique and great, 
> > > > which IMHO means more than anything else urpmi and the draktools. 
> > > > 
> > > > If Mageia starts to change these things then it will quickly alienate 
> > > > many users. Continuity is crucial to take over the Mandriva userbase. 
> > > 
> > > That is one thing, but more importantly - what is wrong with urpmi? I 
> > > think that out of rpm-based package managers it is one of the best. 
> > > 
> > > Regards, 
> > > 
> > > Jan 
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> > 
> > it is the best package manager. however everything can improve and i am 
> > having some small improvement ideas, but those are for a later time. 
> 
> Like downgrading packages as smart can do it ? 

urpmi can do that too 
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