On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 at 1:06pm, Bryan J. Smith wrote
All-in-all, use the tool that is supported by the distro. That is YUM. No, there is no GUI for it that is supported officially, hence some of the complaints. But I'm keeping my eye on SmartPM for the future.
I have yet to see any advantage to a GUI package manager. But, then again, that's just me.
Smart is not a GUI per se. It is a command line tool and people are working on a curses-based front-end. A KDE panel applet exists as well.
There are benefits to having an integrated command line tool and GUI from a maintenance perspective. Most of the code can be reused.
I would love to have RHN support and finally get rid of up2date :)
The biggest disadvantage for both Yum and Smart is that both require a recent version of python. Which is a no-go for older distributions.
BTW The developer previously was in charge of apt-rpm and worked on synaptic too. Smart is available for most of the popular distributions.
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