Repository conflicts and new smart package manager

Craig cs007fc at wowway.com
Sun Dec 5 21:08:03 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 15:11 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm very pleased to be able to announce you a new solution to manage 
> packages and repositories. The new Smart package manager is able to let 
> you use different repositories that were not designed to work together. 
> Which was a recurring complaint on this and many other mailinglists.
> 
> You can prioritize repositories or prioritize packages and Smart will 
> handle the conflicts and make a decision based on what's available. It 
> includes a command-line utility (smart) and a GUI that resembles synaptic 
> (smart-gui).
<snip>
> Smart was written by Gustavo Niemeyer from Conectiva (the same guy that 
> ported apt to rpm and caused the RPM repository revolution). I have made 
> Fedora Core 3 packages (smart and smart-gui) that you can install from apt 
Using synaptic caused me to receive size-mismatch errors. Just wanted to
let you.

Craig






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