future of smart

[Anders F Björklund]

Cliff Wells wrote:

> I'm becoming a little worried about the future of Smart.  It's by far
> the best package manager I've used (and much, much better than the  
> crud
> being foisted on us by Fedora), but development seems to have stalled.
>
> A couple of things that need addressing:
>
> 1) The GUI is old, old, old.  Functionally it's not bad (and far  
> better
> than PackageKit's joke of a GUI), but GTK1?

There's also a KDE version in KPackage 4 (uses Smart underneath now)

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdeadmin/kpackage/index.html

> 2) Mirror support is too convoluted to be usable.  This is a really  
> key
> point because Fedora at least, supplies nothing but mirrors these  
> days.
> This makes getting Smart going on a FC9 box a herculean task.

Did you look at the Yum plugin, with the mirror/mirrorlist additions ?

http://tracker.labix.org/issue350 (the "yumchannelsync" plugin)

> I think these two things would go a long way toward making Smart feel
> not quite so obsolete.


I have another couple of Smart patches outstanding for Mac OS X, too...

Support for MacPorts/Fink is in, but Cocoa GUI is still missing.

--anders