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+ <B>Thomas Lottmann</B>
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+ <I>Tue Sep 28 20:34:09 CEST 2010</I>
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+<PRE>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Le mardi 28 septembre 2010 &#224; 20:02 +0200, nicolas vigier a &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> to be fair, yum is already in the repository, so does smart.
+</I>&gt;<i> Apt-rpm is unmaintained, but if someone does the job of taking care of
+</I>&gt;<i> it, it could also be.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> And we also have poldek too, not sure about the status of this one.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> So, for people who are not happy with the default, do not hesitate to
+</I>&gt;<i> test others packages managers and report issues ( for example, yum does
+</I>&gt;<i> requires specific indexes that we do not provides at mandriva, but we
+</I>&gt;<i> could add them if required, i guess ).
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+As you have just brought up Smart here, I did remember about it and
+though about this.
+
+Some time ago, there was an employees from MandrakeSoft who was working
+on Smart and developping it just like RPMDrake has been developped up to
+now. Yet, back to the previous cost cutting plans the company already
+did, it was decided to only keep RPMDrake as main package manager and
+the employee working on Smart was fired, even though Smart was very
+popular at that time.
+
+Since then, looking at Smart's GUI, it looks like it has not been
+significantly improved since a long time. Lookign in the package's
+history, the fixes show it is maintained only to prevent it from being
+broken.
+
+I know there are several people who are not satisfied with RPMDrake,
+this because they prefer to have a package manager with a different
+philosophy or other kind if conception. I believe Smart could then be
+improved both in text and GUI if people are encouraged to develop and
+work on it. It could offer yet another approach then for package
+management.
+
+Yet, there will have also to be a lot of work on the DrakXtools as well,
+but helping Smart regaining some useful evolution might not be bad for
+people who want a more technically evolved package manager than
+RPMDrake, or something different. At least, I think it would make more
+sense to focus on both RPMDrake and Smart rather than asking for
+Synaptics or others.
+
+This is just a proposal, as I know it is still appreciated and was
+actively developped in the past. But if I got something wrong, please
+fix me then. :-)
+
+Skiper
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