Is YUM superior to Synaptic ?? (was synaptic evolution)
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 25 13:45:36 UTC 2005
Kam Leo said:
[snip]
>> No, probably your apt's sources.list is broken/incomplete or one of the
>> apt repositories you are using is broken.
[snip]
> 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.
So what would SmartPM's reaction to pointing a FC3 machine at FC2 repos
be? From everything I'm hearing it would be to downgrade most of the
packages to FC2 to satisfy these broken deps. I haven't tried that
personally to verify, but that doesn't sound like something I want a
package manager doing.
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William Hooper
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