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Unifying Linux Package Management

Posted by michael on from the one-package-manager-to-bind-them-all dept.

Job Diogenes Ribeiro Borges writes "The Smart Package Manager is an intelligent tool that works on the 'dependency hell' of software upgrading and installation on linux. Works with all major distributions (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc), supporting multiple sources and technologies concurrently. Yes, you could install from multiple sources, from deb, rpm, tgz at same time! Smart Package Manager is being developed by Conectiva and is the tool that makes the Magic of CrossPlatform package management, behind the recently announced 'Four Linux Vendors Agree On An LSB Implementation.' You can get screenshots here (portuguese texts) and a README here."

10 of 501 comments (clear)

  1. Oh, dandy by krog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Combining the weaknesses of five different package managers will surely alleviate "dependency hell."

    I'll be over here, playing nethack on my NetBSD box and giggling.

    --
    Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
    1. Re:Oh, dandy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Nothing else to run on it huh? Poor guy.

    2. Re:Oh, dandy by whyne · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't understand all this fuss is about. cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/ports-supfile cd /usr/ports/xxx/xxx make install clean there is always pkg_add -r xxx.xxx.xxx or in a pinch : portsdb -Uu portversion -l "" portupgrade -arR with the occasional pkgdb -fu

  2. They call it Windows! by Tumbleweed · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've found a great solution to this problem!

    No, you haven't.

  3. Re:Why all the fuss? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, the ease of installation of new packages is unbeatable! I just cruised a few websites, and all sorts of stuff was automatically installed.

  4. what about ebuilds? by Morganth · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm still compiling!!

    Here's a coralized link to the screenshots, too:

  5. Re:Why all the fuss? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    You don't even have to hit a "Next" button...

    The Next button serves a purpose: It allows the user to change the default install options. I want a Next button and I want options. I don't want 100% automatic installs. I thought Linux was all about control?

  6. Re:Why all the fuss? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've found a great solution to this problem! They call it Windows!

    Great, I'll start using it reaches the stable branch. For now, good luck to all you brave souls out there who run unstable and testing.

    By the way, any news on how well it works on ppc and arm? I can't seem to find the source anywhere to test it out. Oh well, guess i'll stick with apt for now.

  7. Re:Lets start the fighting now. by aclarke · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well when *I* was in school, I had to run Netscape on HP/UX, displayed on my local X Server running on a Windows 3.1 box. Displayed over a 2400 baud modem. Uphill. Both ways. In the rain.

    With NOBODY to hold my hands. Because the life of the geek is a lonely life.

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    www.clarke.ca
  8. dragging icons? by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny
    Something that is as intiitive and simple as dragging an icon to the applications folder to install and then dragging it to the trash to uninstall.

    Why would you bother with clicking and dragging when you can simply edit the compile script to your liking, then ./configure with whatever tags suit you, make, make install, go through the output to figure out the dependency errors, download and install the necessary libs, re-edit your compile script, ./configure, make, make install again? That should really be all you need unless you're doing something fancy.