On Sunday 01 October 2006 21:24, Kam Leo wrote: >On 10/1/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 12:35 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: >> > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:25:30PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> > > >True, but ... the classical situation when apt/smart try to >> > > > downgrade is resolving broken package deps inside of an installed >> > > > system. apt and smart diagnose them and try to resolve them (by >> > > > downgrading), yum doesn't diagnose these problems and lets users >> > > > believe "everything is OK", while it actually isn't. >> > > > >> > > >I.e. the fact yum doesn't complain, doesn't mean it is right. >> > > >> > > I have run into problems where apt tries to fix the repository >> > > issues and fails and doesnt let me perform other operations like >> > > updating a package which is completely unrelated to repo breakages. >> > >> > That's true, apt always checks the global health of your system and >> > bails out if it detects something broken to alert the user. That is a >> > debatable policy (there is no technical reason to do so) mostly >> > because it doesn't allow you to use apt anymore to fix the breakage. >> >> I yum installed smart and now when I try to invoke it I get this.. >> [root@iam ~]# smart --gui >> error: Interface 'gtk' not available >> >> [root@iam ~]# >> >> Seems a dependency wasn't considered and I have everything gtk >> installed known to yum... via yum install gtk* ..about 40 megs worth >> and I still get this error. Ric > >Extras has four packages (smart, smart-update, smart-gui, and >ksmarttray) available for downloading. You need to install the first >three to get full capabilities. I cannot see ksmarttray in extras. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
