On 18/09/2007, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > Any more pointers? > > Hi Amos, > > The executable James refers to is system-config-packages (it used to > be called redhat-config-packages). The executable is provided by > the pirut package. It is uses X11, which you can use over ssh > (see the -X and -Y flags to ssh).
Thanks. I installed it. It pulled in tons of stuff with its dependencies (46 packages, mostly related to X11 libraries or notifications daemons I don't care about). It also requires me to enable X11 forwarding. I then turned around and used grep/awk to find all the packages and remove them. At least now I know where I stand in my chances to find such a tool. :( I know of no curses-based package manager which uses the yum API. > Having used dselect on Ubuntu I can understand why no one bothers, > a full GUI interface is just so much more understandable. I can understand your comment about dselect, I hated it too (and I think it's the consensus), but aptitude is totally different and being able to avoid X11 means: 1. faster interface over long distance. 2. avoids installing tons of X11-related stuff on a headless server 3. avoid opening possibly other holes in the system. Yum is the command-line package manager. Yes I know, it seems to have most of the smarts of apt-get but without the convenience of aptitude (can any tool on CentOS remember which package was installed automatically and mark it for removal when no longer required by other packages? And of course there is the interactive interface). Thanks. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
