Le mardi 28 septembre 2010 à 20:02 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
to be fair, yum is already in the repository, so does smart.
Apt-rpm is unmaintained, but if someone does the job of taking care of
it, it could also be.
And we also have poldek too, not sure about the status of this one.
So, for people who are not happy with the default, do not hesitate to
test others packages managers and report issues ( for example, yum does
requires specific indexes that we do not provides at mandriva, but we
could add them if required, i guess ).
As you have just brought up Smart here, I did remember about it and
though about this.
Some time ago, there was an employees from MandrakeSoft who was working
on Smart and developping it just like RPMDrake has been developped up to
now. Yet, back to the previous cost cutting plans the company already
did, it was decided to only keep RPMDrake as main package manager and
the employee working on Smart was fired, even though Smart was very
popular at that time.
Since then, looking at Smart's GUI, it looks like it has not been
significantly improved since a long time. Lookign in the package's
history, the fixes show it is maintained only to prevent it from being
broken.
I know there are several people who are not satisfied with RPMDrake,
this because they prefer to have a package manager with a different
philosophy or other kind if conception. I believe Smart could then be
improved both in text and GUI if people are encouraged to develop and
work on it. It could offer yet another approach then for package
management.
Yet, there will have also to be a lot of work on the DrakXtools as well,
but helping Smart regaining some useful evolution might not be bad for
people who want a more technically evolved package manager than
RPMDrake, or something different. At least, I think it would make more
sense to focus on both RPMDrake and Smart rather than asking for
Synaptics or others.
This is just a proposal, as I know it is still appreciated and was
actively developped in the past. But if I got something wrong, please
fix me then. :-)
Skiper
