Is YUM superior to Synaptic ?? (was synaptic evolution)

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:16:38 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 22:53 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > > The most popular repositories are already entered into the smart
> > > > configuration files. The release version is set for FC3. A user just needs
> > > > to uncomment the disabled ones to get the desired setup. So why would
> > > > anyone point smart at FC2 repos?
> > >
> > > For the same reason that the OP's FC3 system is looking at FC2 repos, an
> > > accident.  Or not realizing that it didn't get updated after you did an
> > > upgrade.  Take a look at the archives, it isn't an uncommon problem.
> > >
> > > --
> > > William Hooper
> > >
> >
> > Those are typically yum or apt users upgrading from previous versions.
> >  Majority of posters are not aware of smart.
> 
> You're missing the point. At some time, someone, for whatever reason
> (e.g. upgrade from FC3 to FC4 but forget to update repos in smart
> config) will point smart at a set of repos for an older distribution.
> The question is: what will happen as a result of that? Hopefully nothing
> too bad!
> 
> Paul.
> --
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 

A good reason why the release version should not be hard -coded in the
config files.