Re: smart package mgr question?

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I just ran smart pkg mgr on my FC5 lappy, and any cups I click on claims it 
> will downgrade 3 packages if I exec it.  What the heck?  Yumex doesn't 
> seem to have that problem.

Smart uses a different dependency resolving algorithm that offers to 
downgrade packages automatically. RPM is not designed for downgrades and 
Yum, Yumex, Pirut etc dont support this. Whether this is a advantage or 
not is debatable.

Rahul