On Tuesday 18 September 2007 14:14:44 [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).
Now SuSEs suit of sysadmin tools, including package management, yast, is just perfect for ssh admin <smile> IE the full GUI suit has a curses equivalent James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
