Fedora's mid-life crisis -- YUM v. APT v. SmartPM

Gian Paolo Mureddu gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx
Mon Aug 6 05:22:05 UTC 2007


Bryan J. Smith escribió:
> On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 23:14 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>   
>> And that almost proves my point in the earlier message (I should have 
>> waited to see this message and post right here... I apologize for being 
>> hasty.
>>     
>
> And I'll ask the same question, again ...
> Why not SmartPM then?
>
> Most people don't realize what Smart focuses on.
> And they don't realize who developed and is behind Smart.  ;)
>
> # yum list |grep -i smart
> fedora-package-config-smart.i386         7-8.1                  updates         
> ...
> smart.i386                               0.50-46.fc7            updates         
> smart-gui.i386                           0.50-46.fc7            updates         
> ...
>
> I haven't checked if Smart fully supports multi-arch (i386 on x86-64),
> although I was able to use it on Fedora Core 6 x86-64 and Fedora 7
> x86-64 without issues.
>
>
>   
That's why I posted that e-mail... I was merely focusing on the two 
"main" package managers for the two main community centric distributions 
(Debian and Fedora)... Didn't think of the "gray area" right away.




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