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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 21:15 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 06:01:25 +0100, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

> 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.
Well neither yum nor apt's dep solver are perfect, but in 99% of all
cases the cause for such breakdowns is packaging bugs.

>  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.
Been there, seen it and ... dumped it (at least for now).
I am far from being convinced about smart and the ongoing hype about it.

Ralf