Hi there, I'm very pleased to be able to announce you a new solution to manage packages and repositories. The new Smart package manager is able to let you use different repositories that were not designed to work together. Which was a recurring complaint on this and many other mailinglists. You can prioritize repositories or prioritize packages and Smart will handle the conflicts and make a decision based on what's available. It includes a command-line utility (smart) and a GUI that resembles synaptic (smart-gui). Smart was written by Gustavo Niemeyer from Conectiva (the same guy that ported apt to rpm and caused the RPM repository revolution). I have made Fedora Core 3 packages (smart and smart-gui) that you can install from apt or yum or if you do not have my repository included, manually from: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/smart/ Smart fixes many of the problems we know with the current package managers. There's a document that explains how it works, what it fixes and includes screenshots for when you're interested but not convinced :) The website is at: http://www.smartpm.org/ (There are also packages for Fedora Core 3 on that website, but they don't include a plugin to allow packages to add repositories automatically.) My current packages come with 13 repositories preconfigured and enabled by default with a preset priority for each. And it has been working very well for me the last 24h. If you do have problems, fixes or suggestions, let us know. Enjoy ! -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
