[Mageia-discuss] Package management system

[Per Øyvind Karlsen]

2010/9/28 Thomas Lottmann <skiperdrake at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Le mardi 28 septembre 2010 à 20:02 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
>>   to be fair, yum is already in the repository, so does smart.
>> Apt-rpm is unmaintained, but if someone does the job of taking care of
>> it, it could also be.
>>
>> And we also have poldek too, not sure about the status of this one.
>>
>> So, for people who are not happy with the default, do not hesitate to
>> test others packages managers and report issues ( for example, yum does
>> requires specific indexes that we do not provides at mandriva, but we
>> could add them if required, i guess ).
>>
>
> 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.
Michael has already corrected you on this, Mandriva most certainly
didn't want to see Niemeyer leaving.. :/


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Regards,
Per Øyvind