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picilli

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Registered: 2010-06-08

Posts: 40

Package management Smart ?

Did someone consider porting "Smart" package manager to Archlinux ? It currently supports rpm, Slackware tgz , and deb packages. On their web page they say "porting it to new systems should be very easy. "  and in their words it resolve depedencies better than distros' native package managers.

Don't take it wrong, pacman is good. This is just a graphical interface of the already mature project based on GTK2. There is another graphical interface "Shaman" for Archlinux based on Qt libs, and to me it seems it has been abandoned. This "Smart" is under active development.

http://labix.org/smart

Last edited by picilli (2010-10-16 00:37:00)

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Package management Smart ?

A couple of really old threads, but you may want to read them anyhow:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=401399
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=401400

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Package management Smart ?

Did someone consider porting "Smart" package manager to Archlinux ? It currently supports rpm, Slackware tgz , and deb packages. On their web page they say "porting it to new systems should be very easy. "  and in their words it resolve depedencies better than distros' native package managers.

There is no chance that smart will handle Arch dependencies better than pacman. None. At best it could be just another front end to pacman.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Package management Smart ?

Did someone consider porting "Smart" package manager to Archlinux ? It currently supports rpm, Slackware tgz , and deb packages. On their web page they say "porting it to new systems should be very easy. "  and in their words it resolve depedencies better than distros' native package managers.

Don't take it wrong, pacman is good. This is just a graphical interface of the already mature project based on GTK2. There is another graphical interface "Shaman" for Archlinux based on Qt libs, and to me it seems it has been abandoned. This "Smart" is under active development.

http://labix.org/smart

Try packagekit if you want a gtk2/qt frontend, it works "OK".

citationneeded

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Registered: 2010-08-23

Posts: 2

Re: Package management Smart ?

Don't know if you saw this:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24655