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). -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman