On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 15:11 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > 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). <snip> > 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 Using synaptic caused me to receive size-mismatch errors. Just wanted to let you. Craig
