2010/9/29 Jerome Quelin <[email protected]>: > On 10/09/28 23:21 +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: >> Now, the "install package", "remove package" are basic features that all >> of them do. And I think that all packages managers are equal on that >> regard. > > hmm. i know that some time ago (when smart was already in the making): > - yum had a basic dependency solving algorithm, not taking some > things into account due to some lack of meta-information > - urpmi was quite correct at dependency solving, albeit a bit hackish > - smart was having real graph traversal algorithms, making it the > cleanest > > (i don't have more information than that, it was what i heard from > urpmi's developer at the time) > > now - yum is working good enough, and is still under development. urpmi > is working more than well enough, and i'm waiting for it to be at fault > given some properly packaged rpms. smart is... well, unmaintained. wrong, it's certainly not unmaintained and it's probably the most viable alternative in the long run wrt. maintenance. :)
-- Regards, Per Øyvind
