On Sunday 01 October 2006 21:24, Kam Leo wrote:
On 10/1/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 12:35 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:25:30PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > >True, but ... the classical situation when apt/smart try to
> > > > downgrade is resolving broken package deps inside of an installed
> > > > system. apt and smart diagnose them and try to resolve them (by
> > > > downgrading), yum doesn't diagnose these problems and lets users
> > > > believe "everything is OK", while it actually isn't.
> > > >
> > > >I.e. the fact yum doesn't complain, doesn't mean it is right.
> > >
> > > I have run into problems where apt tries to fix the repository
> > > issues and fails and doesnt let me perform other operations like
> > > updating a package which is completely unrelated to repo breakages.
> >
> > That's true, apt always checks the global health of your system and
> > bails out if it detects something broken to alert the user. That is a
> > debatable policy (there is no technical reason to do so) mostly
> > because it doesn't allow you to use apt anymore to fix the breakage.
>
> I yum installed smart and now when I try to invoke it I get this..
> [root@iam ~]# smart --gui
> error: Interface 'gtk' not available
>
> [root@iam ~]#
>
> Seems a dependency wasn't considered and I have everything gtk
> installed known to yum... via yum install gtk* ..about 40 megs worth
> and I still get this error. Ric
Extras has four packages (smart, smart-update, smart-gui, and
ksmarttray) available for downloading. You need to install the first
three to get full capabilities.
I cannot see ksmarttray in extras.
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