Package management reloaded II

April 1, 2008 in uncategorized by duncan | 4 comments

Package management is the most used task by our users according to the YaST survey.

Not happy with the super speed and making other similar tools eat dust, our hackers continue to check in cool stuff:

Katarina showed the new face of our text-mode package selector:

new ncurses

Ladislav checked in a cool change. If you look at the package selector main screen. You will notice there is an option in the menu to go to the repository configuration.

main screen

Clicking there brings you to the repository editor without needing to switch modules:

repo editor

And now from there, you can go to edit which keys you trust for repositories:

gpg editor

  1. Knusper’s avatar

    Knusper on April 2, 2008 at 5:48 am

    I am really looking forward for this!!! Looks great, hopefully it works fast and efficient!

  2. Vagelis’s avatar

    Vagelis on April 4, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Nice work, it will make package manager more user friendly

  4. John Thomas’s avatar

    John Thomas on April 29, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    This are GREAT NEWS!!! It’s a very good step :D

    can’t wait for start using it…

    I only wish Yast would be even more user-friendly for newbies… :(