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

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 06:01:25 +0100, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:44 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote:
> > synaptic does automatically resolved dependencies, but not all.
> synaptic does not resolve any dependencies, it is using apt underneath.
> 
> > 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)
> > and i've not yet fixed the evolution problem( see thread about "synaptic
> > evolution")
> > could it be that i'm having problems because i'm in gnome?
> No, probably your apt's sources.list is broken/incomplete or one of the
> apt repositories you are using is broken.
> 
> amule is not part of FC nor FE, so you must be using another repository.
> Either this repository is broken, this repository is incomplete or your
> apt setup is broken.
> 
> Ralf
> 

Neither his apt nor yum is broken.  They're just not very good at
handling difficult dependency problems created by the addition of 3rd
party repositories. Try the beta version of smart (Smart Package
Manager, http://smartpm.org).  It's claim to fame is that it is
supposed to handle these difficult dependency issues.  It's a little
slow on my system, but it works.