Lenz Grimmer wrote: > Hi, > > Janne Karhunen wrote: > > >> Having dozens of different semi-working RPM frontends/repository > >> types is getting seriously out of hands. You need to follow up > >> latest developments on the front daily to be able to install > >> anything. It doesn't really help the user anymore, quite the > >> opposite. > > I must admit I am getting the same impression. While it's nice to > have options, I agree that it is getting out of hands. There is smart, > apt-get, FOUS, rug, yum, YOU and whathavenot. > > Please let some sanity prevail here :) > > It would be nice to have *one* functional, integrated and supported tool > to apply both updates and install packages from external repositories. > > But it looks as if Zen/rug is supposed to take that role now, it just > isn't fully there yet... Do you know that the package management made me re-think my long-standing SUSE usage? I really, really got frustrated with the state of package management in 10.1.
But yesterday evening I decided to give it a last try: I switched over to smart. And boy oh boy, what is smart a great tool! It works out-of-the-box, is fast (compared to zmd 'ultra-fast' :-), and there's even a KDE-native update notice application! Back to the topic: what is exactly the reason that development of yet-another-package-solution was started (zmd/rug) and so on where smart offers in my opinion a very well starting point... Regards Harry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
