Is YUM superior to Synaptic ?? (was synaptic evolution)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 07:52 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:44 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote:
> > synaptic does automatically resolved dependencies, but not all.
> > for example try installing FC3 and then install evolution or amule.
> > not gonna work. amule will require the libcurl.so.2 fix (see thread 
> > about libcur.so.2)
> 
> The libcurl problem occurred because (a) your configured list of
> repositories includes one with an FC1 or FC2 build of amule, requiring
> libcurl.so.2, and (b) your configured list of repositories did not
> include one with a suitable package containing libcurl.so.2 that did not
> clash with your already-installed curl package. This would have happened
> whether you were using yum or an apt-based depsolver like synaptic.
ACK.

> The "smart" package manager may have been able to solve the problem by
> downgrading curl, but only if you had no other packages installed that
> depended on libcurl.so.2, which I think is very unlikely.
Which in fact only means to shift the actual package conflict to a later
point of time. At that future point, you'll either see this conflict
again, or it will probably prevent/block you from further
upgrading/updating.

One of the reasons I am not convinced about smart at all.

Ralf