smart package mgr question?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Sep 30 19:44:35 UTC 2006
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I just ran smart pkg mgr on my FC5 lappy, and any cups I click on claims it
> will downgrade 3 packages if I exec it. What the heck? Yumex doesn't
> seem to have that problem.
>
Smart uses a different dependency resolving algorithm that offers to
downgrade packages automatically. RPM is not designed for downgrades and
Yum, Yumex, Pirut etc dont support this. Whether this is a advantage or
not is debatable.
Rahul
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