[Mageia-discuss] Package management system

[Per Øyvind Karlsen]

2010/9/29 Jerome Quelin <jquelin at gmail.com>:
> On 10/09/28 23:21 +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
>> Now, the "install package", "remove package" are basic features that all
>> of them do. And I think that all packages managers are equal on that
>> regard.
>
> hmm. i know that some time ago (when smart was already in the making):
> - yum had a basic dependency solving algorithm, not taking some
>  things into account due to some lack of meta-information
> - urpmi was quite correct at dependency solving, albeit a bit hackish
> - smart was having real graph traversal algorithms, making it the
>  cleanest
>
> (i don't have more information than that, it was what i heard from
> urpmi's developer at the time)
>
> now - yum is working good enough, and is still under development. urpmi
> is working more than well enough, and i'm waiting for it to be at fault
> given some properly packaged rpms. smart is... well, unmaintained.
wrong, it's certainly not unmaintained and it's probably the most
viable alternative in the long run wrt. maintenance. :)

--
Regards,
Per Øyvind