Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
Janne Karhunen wrote:
Having dozens of different semi-working RPM frontends/repository types is getting seriously out of hands. You need to follow up latest developments on the front daily to be able to install anything. It doesn't really help the user anymore, quite the opposite.
I must admit I am getting the same impression. While it's nice to have options, I agree that it is getting out of hands. There is smart, apt-get, FOUS, rug, yum, YOU and whathavenot.
Please let some sanity prevail here :)
It would be nice to have *one* functional, integrated and supported tool to apply both updates and install packages from external repositories.
But it looks as if Zen/rug is supposed to take that role now, it just isn't fully there yet... Do you know that the package management made me re-think my long-standing SUSE usage? I really, really got frustrated with the state of package management in 10.1.
But yesterday evening I decided to give it a last try: I switched over to smart. And boy oh boy, what is smart a great tool! It works out-of-the-box, is fast (compared to zmd 'ultra-fast' :-), and there's even a KDE-native update notice application! Back to the topic: what is exactly the reason that development of yet-another-package-solution was started (zmd/rug) and so on where smart offers in my opinion a very well starting point... Regards Harry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org