Smart Package Manager on Ubuntu

[dave walker]

Paul M. Bucalo wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 08:44 -0400, Dave Walker wrote:
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>>Now I personally don't think SmartPM is a great idea.  It will have 
>>problems in time. 
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>If their users forum and release history are any indication of the
>truth, it's the other way around...
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>> Each distribution places files in a different 
>>location, it will have to find out what you are using and realign where 
>>files are going. 
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>Which it has always done...
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>> If anything they would make it for Debian, which if 
>>you ever tried adding a debian repository to ubuntu is bad news, and not 
>>for us.
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>Since it reads from the source.list and apt-get cache on your system, I
>fail to see how what you said applies. The only reason they make a .deb
>version is to be able to install it. There isn't any references build
>into the packaged version to what repo's it will seek out. Also, a
>current version of this application is made available through Ubuntu's
>mirrors. Anyone using Hoary can install this without breaking
>dependencies...
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>>I would use it if I had a need, I have everything I want through apt and 
>>RPM's through alien.
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>That is why I specifically asked for any experience in using it, not
>opinions on it value over what's currently in use. I don't want to start
>a Chevy versus Ford debate. :0)
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>I did install the program on a spare Ubuntu box and it works just fine.
>I would still like to know from someone who has used the application for
>some time now how they like it. So...anyone on this list using this
>package manager?
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>Paul
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What I meant to get across, is from my experiences using it, it does not 
work well.  It broke my Ubuntu.  It put things in bad places, regardless 
of how it goes about finding it.  So I said that I would not use it 
against where is out there, be it opinion or not.  I don't like it and 
it did not work well for me.  Which is why if there was something it 
offered I would try to make it work again, but there is not.

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Dave