On Wednesday 12 October 2005 21:03, Pascal Bleser wrote: > Siegbert Baude wrote: > ... > > > If you installed them by apt, you can simply update them by apt, too. > > Even if they are locked in yast. > > Yep. > > > But what I read on this list (even by Richard Bos himself?), the > > longterm plannings will go to using yum not apt. For 10.0 however, apt > > is fine. > > yum has at least two advantages over apt: > 1) it's been written to support RPM "natively", where apt(rpm) is "just" a > port of apt to support an RPM subsystem instead of dpkg (the Debian package > manager, which it was originally written and still actively maintained for) > 2) creating yum repositories is very easy, straightforward and fast; > creating apt(rpm) repositories is magnitudes slower and a little more > complex to set up > > On the other hand, what speaks for apt is that it has been used a lot, > since a long time, it's definately a very stable and well functioning piece > of software, although those arguments are voided a little because apt(rpm) > is a port, not the one used by all the Debian folks. > > The longterm plan is this: http://smartpm.org > SUSE Linux RPMs are here: > http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=/System/smart > > Note that the author and current maintainer of Smart is Gustavo Niemeyer, > who is the guy who originally ported apt to RPM. It's a while he's being > paid full-time for implementing Smart, first at Conectiva, then at Mandriva > (Mandrake having bought up Conectiva) and now for Canonical. That means > it's very actively maintained and that the author pretty much knows his > subject ;)
Hope it wouldn't happen in the very near future ;) As a simple example: $ ps axl | grep smart 0 1001 21282 1 15 0 24548 3420 - S ? 0:00 kdesu smart --gui 4 0 21297 21294 15 0 557048 236368 - Ss ? 2:23 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/smart --gui 0 1001 21842 21529 17 0 1864 628 - R+ pts/1 0:00 grep smart Note VSZ and RSS columns. And I have "only" half-gig of ram installed :( -- Best regards, Alexander. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
