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• Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/smartpm

• Created: Date(2005-10-31T22:52:04Z) by MichaelVogt

• Contributors: MichaelVogt

• Packages affected: smartpm

Summary

There is a new package managment system availabe written by GustavoNiemeyer called "smart". It is able to deal with debs, rpm, slackware tgz (at the same time). We should consider using it in ubuntu and figure what features (if any) are missing.

Rationale

Use cases

Scope

Design

To make the transition from apt to smart easy it should be possible for smart to read apts sources.list file and dynamically track the content there.

There are various features that we would like to get for smart:

• tracking and auto-removal of unused dependencies (just like aptitude)
• use that in gnome-app-install to be able to automatically remove the dependencies that were installed for a given application
• use the "automatically-installed" info in the problemResolver (consider non-automatic packages more important during conflict resolution)
• support for translated package descriptions (similar to the debian ddtp format?)
• supoprt for "deb-src" type uris

• Qt frontend (to make Riddell happy

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

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