on 04/26/2007 11:40 PM Kam Leo wrote:
On 4/25/07, William Case <billlinux(a)rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi Ric;
>
> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:16 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 00:50 -0400, William Case wrote:
>>> By the way is yumex ever going to produce a help manual?
>> Bill, I highly recommend smart. You get a nice gui that shows
>> every rpm out there with a nice search function. If you search
>> for Xine, you'll see what is available and the ones you currently
>> have installed. Really nice. IMHO it's beats the pants off of
>> yumex. Give it a whirl! Ric
> Thanks Ric. I had planned to give 'smart' a whirl when I install
> Fedora 7. Not that the version/core number matters; its just that
> I have so many small and large learning curves over the next 6
> weeks that I have given myself to climb. A new install of fedora
> seemed like a good benchmark to add new applications to try out.
>
> By the way, does 'smart' have a good manual. 'man' yum and yumex
> --no-help, are pretty rudimentary if you want to go deeper than
> just trial and error.
Unfortunately, the documentation is a work in progress.
It seems to be in progress quite for a while now. I'm using smart for
more almost two years now and I agree with Reek Moore, that I'm stuck
with it only thanks to its comprehensive and user-friendly interface,
otherwise I would give up pretty soon.
--
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta
/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./