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List:       mandrake-expert
Subject:    Re: [expert] New Naming Convention & release cycle
From:       Juan Luis Baptiste <jbaptiste () cable ! net ! co>
Date:       2005-03-22 3:42:40
Message-ID: 200503212242.40178.jbaptiste () cable ! net ! co
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On Mon 21 Mar 2005 21:46, Vincent Danen wrote:
> I seriously doubt we're going to toss urpmi out the door.  It is way
> better than apt-rpm and even some Conectiva (or, rather, new
> Mandrakesoft folk) believe urpmi handles dependencies better and is
> faster.
>
> I highly doubt we'll be going apt-rpm, but I can't say for 100%.  I can
> say fairly confidently that I would be *extremely* surprised if it went
> out the door (now we may have the repositories officially support both,
> but I think urpmi is here to stay).

What about SmartPM?

http://smartpm.org/

It's developed also by Conectiva and has various case studies where it says it 
handles dependencies way better than apt and yum, unfortunatedly there isn't 
one comparing to urpmi.
http://linux-br.conectiva.com.br/~niemeyer/smart/doc/README.html#case-studies


Cheers,
-- 
Juan Luis Baptiste
http://www.merlinux.org
http://knetworkconf.sf.net

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