2010/9/28 Thomas Lottmann <[email protected]>: >> >> 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. Michael has already corrected you on this, Mandriva most certainly didn't want to see Niemeyer leaving.. :/
-- Regards, Per Øyvind
