On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:45 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Smart looks nice and is moving along OK, and having a GUI is good. Smart can use repomd (Repo MetaData) used by yum and the metadata used by apt. It also has a couple features that I like ... one of them is signing a priority to a repo (ie, you can make packages in the base repo have a higher score than a add-on repo. This would only update absolute requirements from the add-on repo.)
It's much better than APT's pinning IMHO.
I personally use yum ... though I have one test machine that is using smart. Even when I use smart, I use the CLI and not the GUI.
As I recommended, sticking with the distro's default is most ideal. But I'm keeping my eye on SmartPM.
One very good thing for CentOS is that Seth Vidal is one of the CentOS Developers, so we will have extended yum support for the duration :)
That's great news (I didn't know Seth was involved with CentOS).