Smart package manager (was Re: Making update functionality more usable (Was: Re: What next?))

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Fri Jun 10 19:51:15 UTC 2005


Chris McDonough wrote:
> Hmm.  
> 
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 20:29 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
> 
>>1. I'd like to add smart install to Extras.
>>
>>- It's written by the author of Synaptic and principal maintainer of 
>>apt-get for RPM
>>- Its a replacement for yum / apt-get / up2date / synaptic / etc.
>>- It has both a CLI and GUI interface.
>>- The GUI version is GTK2, and looks exactly like Synaptic (oddly enough 
>>being written by the same author).
>>- It works with Yum metadata repositories.
>>- Its faster than yum and apt-get as it downloads from multiple sources 
>>simultaneously.
> 
> 
> It's written in Python, too!  Very nice.  Thanks for the tip...

Does smartpm support multilib yet?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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