Smart package manager as alternative for Synaptic??

[JohnW_57]

Smart package manager as alternative for Synaptic??

Did playing with smart package manager.
Not so easy for beginners (it have a lot of options).
Easier to roll back (for testers)
Easier to check what's is broken.
Easy to pin packages, ect... ect...
It's only in the English language (I guess).

What do you think about it?

JohnW

[The Chief]

It was discussed in the magazine, http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200804/page04.html
some 5 years ago (by pinoc) and he seemed to like it.

[parnote]

A lot of things can change in the 5 years since that magazine article was written. The question that comes immediately to mind is has Smart Package Manager been kept up-to-date in the repos?

[JohnW_57]

The question that comes immediately to mind is has Smart Package Manager been kept up-to-date in the repos?

It's actual in repository (test/testing).

JohnW

[footstep11]

I use it because it has a feature that, for some unknown reason, synaptic does not have (see my post here).
Smart has an "installed files" tab that display the list of the files installed by the selected package.

Ciao, Mauro

[tele]

I use also Smart Package Manager 1.4.1 because sometimes I need:
 - check Content package
 - install older package (previous)

But
- delete icon in the search packages are not intuitive, I click often clean where I need search package
 ( search icon should be on the right instead of the icons clean )
- I don't see history log installed package ,
so I use this only when synaptic is not enough to do something more.

I would be happy if the:
- was the ability to remove a package with all previously installed on your system, if the relationship is not used by other programs. In urpmi this is possible but I don't tested , so I don't know.

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Edit:
Aaaa Something else worries me.
 - When new users update system, do not know that some a packets needs manually update,
example Libre Office , Virtualbox.
Super if manager will activate the scripts in order to update the software.
I hope this will  safe.

Edit:
I want also in manager filtr package
-> like orphaner for clean system, ( this exist in pclos -> rpmorphaner )
I want list package
 - which are not dependencies  other package

If you want to clean up your Ubuntu or Debian machine and delete unnecessary (orphaned) deb packages you can use utility deborphan.

I want also catalogs in manager , where I can istall all package needed for example kde , fce , lxde, one click.

I want see "dependency tree" in info package in manager  from spec.file. ( In rpm binary spec file exist? )


The best option that additives were used as a plug manager, then as someone does not like a heavy manager to remove the plug , example plug with filtr.

Edit:
I like also from synaptic , list package from search , this is helpfully when I 'm looking many packages for check or install, because I can back to previous search.

[ihyfr]

I hope this isn't too off topic. Does smart load and search the package database faster than synaptic? Synaptic and even apt take a long time to load and search. Another computer of mine has Arch with pacman as the package manager. It somehow needs no time to load or search the package database.

[JohnW_57]

I can confirm Smart works faster then Synaptic but... it depends also the speed of the ftp server (mirror) also your connection speed.
The best way is to test it on your system.

JohnW