[Wlug] Smart package manager

[John Stoffel]

Andy> Those of you who attended the most recent WLUG meeting might
Andy> remember me complaining that the version of YaST on OpenSuSE
Andy> 10.1 has a pathetically slow program for handling software
Andy> installation.  Greg Avedissian mentioned the Smart package
Andy> manager (http://labix.org/smart) as an alternative, so I gave it
Andy> a try.

This is really interesting.  I've been very happy with 'apt-get' on my
Debian box, but I've been totally ticked at how slow 'yum' is on my
Fedora Core 3 box at work.  I should probably just rebuild the thing,
but hey, it's my main desktop and working for now.

But yum is just not a fast too.  

John