On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 09:00 -0300, Martin Marques wrote: > When I first used yum, FC1, it did lots of things I really didn't like, > being the worst the download of all the repo metadata each time yum was > executed. Very bad behavior. > > At that time I started using smart which was quite promising but now I > see it as a real hog. Don't know if it's due to smart, rpm or the rpm > meta data structure (XML parsing can be quite resource consuming). > > So I tried yum yesterday and found some nice things since. > > Three things I found lacking (of haven't found how to configure) in > latest versions of yum are: > > 1) Preferences for repositories, so that a package in more then one > repository will always try to keep the one from a specific repository. I > saw an option in yum.conf, pkgpolicy, which is not documented, and the > little doc I found on the web wasn't very enlightening. > > 2) Search gives to much information: One line with a brief description > is enough. And it repeats it self: If the same package is in core, > updates and freshrpms I get it three times. > > 3) A policy of installation would be good to have, so befor installing a > package you know where it comes from, and what installed package will be > replaced in case of an upgrade. Smart package manager has all of those features and runs a LOT faster, IMHO. You might want to give it a whirl. Ric --
