Moving from apt to smart?
Joachim Schrod
jschrod at acm.org
Wed Mar 26 06:44:35 PDT 2008
Richard, thanks a lot for your answers and pointers,
> > Therefore -- what do you see as your switch-to-smart advantages,
> > compared to apt?
>
> In theory the upstream support for smart is better than for apt-rpm.
> The problem with apt-rpm is that it is bound to a forked version of
> apt. As such it can profit from the developments of apt. You
> therefor see that apt is now somewhere at version 0.6.46 while
> apt-rpm is still at 0.5.x In other words apt-rpm is kept alive, but
> smart development should be more active.
That surely is a very important point. I'll keep investigating, and
will follow the list to see how development proceeds.
Best,
Joachim
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