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

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:55:25 -0500 (EST), William Hooper
<whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Kam Leo said:
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:03:58 +0100, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> Shit happens, I'm just wondering how smartpm handles it.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> allegedly better than yum/apt thou that remains untested/unproven
> >> s/better/different/
> >>
> >> Anything else is matter of personal preference, rsp. propaganda.
> >>
> >>
> >> Ralf
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The most popular repositories are already entered into the smart
> > configuration files. The release version is set for FC3. A user just needs
> > to uncomment the disabled ones to get the desired setup. So why would
> > anyone point smart at FC2 repos?
> 
> For the same reason that the OP's FC3 system is looking at FC2 repos, an
> accident.  Or not realizing that it didn't get updated after you did an
> upgrade.  Take a look at the archives, it isn't an uncommon problem.
> 
> --
> William Hooper
> 

Those are typically yum or apt users upgrading from previous versions.
 Majority of posters are not aware of smart.