future of smart

[Grant McWilliams]

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>
> The fact that I get these loops is actually a feature.  If Smart were as
> incapable as any other PM available (not including Apt, btw) then I'd not
> have loops.  I'd have instead, what I had before Smart,  unresolvable
> updates that could only be resolved by downloading specific packages,
> issuing rpm -e (sometimes even with nodeps), etc.
>
> very very glad to have it, no matter what the toolkit  ;)
>   --
> Richard Hendershot <rshendershot at mchsi.com>
>

The problem is I have several hundred airplane mechanics using Smart that
don't understand why it's "broken". These folks like to submit tech support
tickets when something doesn't work. Let's face it if something isn't
functional (never stop upgrading/downgrading) then in most peoples eyes it's
dysfunctional no matter what the reason. My standard answer now is "wait and
try it tomorrow". Unfortunately these machines are transient and travel all
over the world so there may only be a limited number of times where they
have the opportunity to update all their packages.

Ultimately my solution was to remove ksmarttray so the users didn't see this
upgrade bait dangling in front of them so the chances of them getting in a
loop is less. But imagine if we had something like yum were it updates
automatically - we'd use a lot of network bandwidth...

Grant
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