smart package mgr question?

[Ric Moore]

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 at iam ~]# smart --gui
error: Interface 'gtk' not available

[root at 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


 
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