Re: smart package manager
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:30:34 -0400, Stephen wrote: >On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:20:43PM -0600 or thereabouts, Joseph Smidt wrote: >> There is talk about the smart package manager. It claims it will handle >> package managing better than APT. Is this true or propaganda? If it is >> true, will there be a future switch from APT to this SMART? Could it be a >> potential etch +1 goal? Just wondering. > >Are you referring to Aptitude ? It's available either in a curses >display (I think it's curses) or from the command line. No, he's referring to smart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Package_Manager /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Unreadable code, Why would anyone use it? Learn a better way. -- Geoff Kuenning's contribution to the 2004 Perl Haiku Contest, Haikus about Perl - 'Dishonerable Mention' winner pgpeQaUBStrtu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: smart package manager
>> There is talk about the smart package manager. It claims it will handle >> package managing better than APT. Is this true or propaganda? If it is >> true, will there be a future switch from APT to this SMART? Could it be a >> potential etch +1 goal? Just wondering. > > Are you referring to Aptitude ? It's available either in a curses > display (I think it's curses) or from the command line. He is probably referring to "smartpm" package: The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation. This tool works in all major distributions (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc). This project is in beta testing. Please, understand that bugs are expected to be found at that stage, and there are features that still must be implemented in the forthcoming future. It is an interesting project, but I doubt that APT will go away anytime soon. You do not just go and replace essential parts of the operating system with some half tested beta software. Maybe one day, but probably not in Etch+1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smart package manager
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:20:43PM -0600 or thereabouts, Joseph Smidt wrote: > There is talk about the smart package manager. It claims it will handle > package managing better than APT. Is this true or propaganda? If it is > true, will there be a future switch from APT to this SMART? Could it be a > potential etch +1 goal? Just wondering. Are you referring to Aptitude ? It's available either in a curses display (I think it's curses) or from the command line. I consider it better than apt-get, but that's _my_ opinion. If you search Google with the query 'apt-get vs aptitude' you'll get some opinions, along with educated opinions. I like this one: "Aptitude is said to deal with dependencies better than apt-get. For example, say you install a package which automatically installs some library packages because it depends on them. When you remove this package with apt-get, it won't remove the libraries this package installed, although they aren't used anymore. When you install that package with aptitude and remove it with aptitude, aptitude 'detects' that those library packages aren't used anymore and will therefore automatically remove them." -- Regards Stephen + What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. + -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
