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

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 26 00:55:25 UTC 2005


Kam Leo said:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:03:58 +0100, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> Shit happens, I'm just wondering how smartpm handles it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> allegedly better than yum/apt thou that remains untested/unproven
>> s/better/different/
>>
>> Anything else is matter of personal preference, rsp. propaganda.
>>
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>
> The most popular repositories are already entered into the smart
> configuration files. The release version is set for FC3. A user just needs
> to uncomment the disabled ones to get the desired setup. So why would
> anyone point smart at FC2 repos?

For the same reason that the OP's FC3 system is looking at FC2 repos, an
accident.  Or not realizing that it didn't get updated after you did an
upgrade.  Take a look at the archives, it isn't an uncommon problem.

-- 
William Hooper




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