What about smartpm?

[Neal Becker]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 08:55 -0800, MJang wrote:
>> 
>> A couple of months ago, I was under the impression that all the distros
>> were moving in that direction, as Smartpm can handle upgrades to both
>> RPMs and DEBs and can work from all kinds of repositories (apt, yum,
>> urpmi, slack, etc.). Is Smartpm still under consideration for FC5?
> 
> As far as I know, no.  Duplicate functionality.  Fedora doesn't use apt,
> no need to worry about that from a Fedora standpoint.  Fedora uses yum,
> yum cli updates, pup graphically updates.
> 

Partially true - but yum is smart, and smart is smarter.

For example, just this morning yum quit updating.  I don't recall the
details, but I had installed videolan-client from dries yum repos, and an
update of one of it's depends (from a different repo) broke it.

yum was stymied.

smart just offered to downgrade the depend, and happily fixed it.