On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 21:15 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 06:01:25 +0100, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neither his apt nor yum is broken. > They're just not very good at > handling difficult dependency problems created by the addition of 3rd > party repositories. Well neither yum nor apt's dep solver are perfect, but in 99% of all cases the cause for such breakdowns is packaging bugs. > Try the beta version of smart (Smart Package > Manager, http://smartpm.org). It's claim to fame is that it is > supposed to handle these difficult dependency issues. It's a little > slow on my system, but it works. Been there, seen it and ... dumped it (at least for now). I am far from being convinced about smart and the ongoing hype about it. Ralf
