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I've used Smart to downgrade and rectify conflicts a LOT. I've never had a bit of trouble. I'm running FC4 with nrpms, at, and several other repositories. YMMV, but I'd *hate* to see less weight given to Smart's ability to do these things!<BR>
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ps- a good example is LIRC. Somehow it conflicts with HAL preventing it from running if I use the latest out there. Using Smart I was able to downgrade to BASE and voila, problem solved. When I care enough about lirc I'll figure out what went wrong, but heck I'll probably be using FC5 by then. Gstreamer is another example. Gnome 2.12 also. All conflicts and issues were easily handled. Great program. Priceless even :)<BR>
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On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:02 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">When I talk about smart on fedora lists, there is a lot of resistance to the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">idea of a package system that would automatically downgrade packages. This, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">they say, is not safe.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">What about a configuration option to prevent downgrading, or only allow it by </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">manual override? That should satisfy everyone</FONT>.
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Richard Hendershot <<A HREF="mailto:rshendershot@mchsi.com">rshendershot@mchsi.com</A>>
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