On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Richard Bos wrote:
Op donderdag 5 januari 2006 10:37, schreef Christoph Thiel:
With RPM 4.4.2 and SMART 0.41 things have gotten much better by the way
Are you definately sure that smart performs as well as apt did?
Well, I never used apt intensively, but yes, the SMART performance could be much better. One option could be to just call rpm instead of using python-rpm to perform the installation of packages (like YaST does it ;)).
What I read on this ML is that SMART uses a lot of memory (too much) in case many packages are to be installed! Perhaps apt can still be provided via the online repository (not on the CDs) as a fallback in case SMART does not performs as expected...?
I would rather like to stick with SMART and get a much testing on SMART as possible. Because at the end of the day, we will have a mature package manager(tm) then. Let's face it: As long as there is apt, nobody is going to use SMART -- and we both know that apt-rpm doesn't have a bright future... Regards Christoph