Unifying Linux Package Management

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."

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Re:You're going to hate this but...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not just Debian. Pretty much anything non-RPM based has no "dependency hell". Why do Debian, Gentoo, and the BSDs not have dependency hell? Because the repositories are controlled! RPM-based distributions will try to install anything from anywhere, and it's no big surprise that nothing matches up.

It's really that simple. Dependency hell is not a software problem. It's a management problem.

OSX

[minus_273]

if linux is to be truly ready for the desktop we need a syatem like in OSX. 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. That should be it. I know there are arguments against this apprach from geeks who talk about the waste in having redundnat libaries, but this is not intenedeed for geeks it is for people who want software to just work.