Re: Package managers

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On 16/12/10 15:01, Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> Some package-management questions:
>
> 1.    The package called "smart" doesn't seem to work anymore. It seems
> to me that it can't keep up with its channel files. I wonder why F14
> even has a version of "smart" in its repos, if we already have yum,
> yumex, and package managers specific to KDE and Gnome. At least those
> managers get the job done.

It works for me, in f13, and provides easily accessible information on 
package contents, location, dependencies, history.  'Can't keep up' 
isn't very specific.

John P


>
> 2.    KPackagekit does not allow very good searching within groups of
> packages anymore--not in F14, it doesn't. When I was setting up F14 and
> used KPackagekit for the first time, I got lots of icons for application
> groups. The minute I used the program once, to install some programs,
> those icons disappeared and I've never been able to get them back. Am I
> missing something? Does yumex still preserve this group-searching
> capability?
>
> Temlakos

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