On Tuesday 13 February 2007 01:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue 13 Feb 2007 02:50, Bryan Tyson wrote: > > In my opinion, if the package system is > > unusable, the distro is unusable. > > ___________ > > - Did one try SMART - is it possible that 'smart' can be the perfect > solution? >
I would not go so far as to say SMART is "perfect" by any means. It is a software application like any other with features and some bugs. Okay, my C++ hello world app probably doensn't have bugs, but that's a different story. Like all software applications it has its good and its bad. This is an application called....um...nevermind. I use it on my machines and am satisfied. It is far faster than YOU/YAST/ZEN and seems to do what I need. While doing work this morning, I realized my desktop needed to update some apps so I took some screenshots. Like YOU and Zen, it has a system tray telling you when you need to update stuff... http://donutmonster.com/stuff/2007/20070213_smart.jpg ...it then allows you to bring up a GUI or command line interface to do those updates... http://donutmonster.com/stuff/2007/20070213_smart2.jpg ...like YAST, you can tell it not to update certian things. On my laptop, where I do development in Java, I've got it locked at 1.5.0_06. Once in process, It will pull down in a multi-threaded fashion the sources you need including Guru and Packman... http://donutmonster.com/stuff/2007/20070213_smart3.jpg ...that picture has me downloading from both SUSE and Guru. Most importantly, it opens to Amusements/Games. Is it perfect? Hardly. There are issues, like when you try to open up two instances and the command line version seems to have occasional hiccups. However, I have resorted to using it on my 10.1 systems and don't feel the need to change ATM. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
