pirut aggravations

[David W. Florence]

Smart has its problems, like not showing uninstalled or new packages. 
All I would ever see it what is installed on my machine.

Dave

Kam Leo wrote:
> On 4/14/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:17 -0400, Dan wrote:
>>     
>>> As I've noted above, give yumex a try, it's much further along in
>>> development, you might like it better. Takes a lot longer to read in
>>> the metadata though, cause it is very meticulous, but at least 0.99 is
>>> a lot more streamlined graphically than 0.44 was. And you can always
>>> turn off the refresh at startup.
>>>       
>> Have they improved the behaviour since 0.44 that makes turning off
>> refresh a useless thing to do?  In as much that if you turn it off, sure
>> the program starts quick, but you can't do anything with it.  You have
>> to refresh to install/remove/update something.  Without it, all you have
>> are empty windows.  The only thing that you can do with it, in that
>> state, is adjust preferences or tick/untick repos.
>>
>> --
>>     
>
> Try Smart Package Manager. The rpms (smart, smart-gui, and
> smart-update) are available in Extras..
>
>