On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
Also we need an apt KDE stable repository for 10.0 ;)
Will come tonight or during the day.
Why not a YUM repo as well ?
Not usable for apt.
Well, apt repo might not be usefull for YUM users, that's true.
But based on the posts in the opensuse mailing lists I though all the apt stuff will be canceld and YUM should be the tool of choice.
Isn't that valid anymore ?
It's correct. To give you an official statement on this: We have dropped "apt-rpm" for SUSE Linux 10.1 and added "smart" [http://www.smartpm.org/], which is the successor of apt (developed by the original apt developer). The "Smart Package Manager" is able to access YUM repos, as well as APT repos + it has a very similar user experience in terms of both commandline interface and GUI (like synaptic).
Otherwise I would not understand to supply a apt repo but no YUM repo.
I'll try to make sure that we provide a YUM repo of the KDE supplementary trees... Regards Christoph