> I know. If you're so convinced about smartrpm, why don't you include it > into FC and consider to abandon up2date and yum, rsp. to adopt > smartrpm's resolver into rpm, rsp. to change yum to use that? It is one of the biggest items. Many python-addon tools have additional needs on the depsolver and the transition between rpmlib and python is not easy enough. One of the very good items about yum is that it is actually using the rpmlib depsolver. greetings, Florian La Roche