Uninstalling progrms?

Richard E Miles r.godzilla at comcast.net
Fri Feb 18 21:56:18 UTC 2005


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:08:17 -0500
Johnathan Bailes <johnathan.bailes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:05:00 +0100, Duncan Lithgow
> <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> > Do people not think synaptic would be easier for a new linux user? I find it
> > quite a lot easier than yum for uninstalling.
> > 
> > Duncan
> > 
> > --
> 
> A lot of people on the list really like this smart pm thing.  
> 
> Getting tired of yum and not wanting to do the apt4rpm thing again I
> went out to try this.
> 
> I installed smart, smart-update and smart-gui.  
> 
> OMG, it is soooo tight.
> 
> The gui interface is a bit obtuse but the performance is great even
> over Synaptic and completely faster than gyum.
> 
> I did some test installs and removes.  Wow.  
> 
> The only slow part is the updating of the cache before and after but
> overall I honestly believe the RH/Fedora folks should look into
> dedicating some resources to making this the next generation package
> management system for Fedora.
> 
> It is really that good imho.
> 
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I tried smart too and it is cool. I second your suggestion.

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Richard E Miles
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