Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:40:17PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> I've started my own package manager project from scratch. It uses the same >> infrastructure, but has the different design. If it reach usable state, I will >> propose it for Debian at some future. > Yet another package manager? There are already apt and smart. What is so special > that you need to create a new one? Michael and Otavio can tell you if they want. I doubt I can express this in two words. About smartpm... well, this is the tool that operates with some "channels" like 'aptsync-6231035y1y584305', have 'Upgrades' relation and fails to do basic actions. No, I can't propose it to be a package manager for Debian. Maybe just nobody tested it in Debian environment. -8<- $ smart upgrade Loading cache... Updating cache... ####################################################################################### [100%] Computing transaction... No interesting upgrades available. jackyf@1501-debian:~/download/tmp$ smart install abcde Loading cache... Updating cache... ####################################################################################### [100%] error: 'abcde' matches no packages ->8- while ->8- jackyf@1501-debian:~/download/tmp$ sudo apt-get upgrade [...] 262 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 309MB/334MB of archives. After this operation, 12.3MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. jackyf@1501-debian:~/download/tmp$ sudo apt-get install abcde [...] 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 273 not upgraded. Need to get 111kB/321kB of archives. After this operation, 1180kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. ->8- -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer
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