Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 07:05:33, Kyek, Andreas, VF-DE wrote:

> I'm a bit confused about the packagemanagement in 10.1.
> 
> AFAIK there is yast, smart and apt. smart shall be the
> successor of apt, which will (AFAIK) be supported last
> time with 10.1

and yum and y2pmsh and rug/zmd...
 
> What about smart? Is smart the upcoming tool in 10.x or
> is it yast (with this migrated software for software 
> management where I read something somewhere about?)

There is no upcomming tool. Linux is about choice. Preconfigured
Packagemanager will "always" be YaST/libzypp.
 
> Can someone clarify that or tell me a link, where I can
> read something about that?

I started http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Management

maybe you can help and expand it with examples for apt4rpm?

Henne

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