Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 08:55 -0800, MJang wrote: >> >> A couple of months ago, I was under the impression that all the distros >> were moving in that direction, as Smartpm can handle upgrades to both >> RPMs and DEBs and can work from all kinds of repositories (apt, yum, >> urpmi, slack, etc.). Is Smartpm still under consideration for FC5? > > As far as I know, no. Duplicate functionality. Fedora doesn't use apt, > no need to worry about that from a Fedora standpoint. Fedora uses yum, > yum cli updates, pup graphically updates. > Partially true - but yum is smart, and smart is smarter. For example, just this morning yum quit updating. I don't recall the details, but I had installed videolan-client from dries yum repos, and an update of one of it's depends (from a different repo) broke it. yum was stymied. smart just offered to downgrade the depend, and happily fixed it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
