On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:12:07AM -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > Good points. It's the reason I almost never accept downgrades > suggested by Smart, except when I'm trying to get around some > dependency issue, and intend to reinstall the current packages > immediately after - I have done it on one or two other occasions, > but for very special circumstances. As I mentioned earlier in > this thread, Smart always gives you an approval window where it > lists exactly what it intends to do before proceeding, and > there's a cancel button. Claude, for a meaningful discussion on this subject you should post what exactly smart is trying to do, best with --explain. Otherwise we're hunting myths and noone is served by this, it just creates hearsay arguments that some people like the software and others don't. W/o details it cannot be analysed. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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