[odf-discuss] Smart package manager

[Nicu Buculei]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Does anyone know if 'smart' (the package manager) is available in the
> repositories of Mandriva, Fedora Core and SuSE?

It is available in Fedora Extras but not installed by default.

> This is about the ODF Viewer installer. I'm becoming disillusioned with
> Autopackage because several users report that the installer fails. I
> think we'll try to use native packages, but I don't want to maintain 5
> packages or have 5 download links for Linux (xulrunner rpm, odfviewer
> rpm, xulrunner deb, odfviewer deb, and a tgz).

Most users on those distros will not have smart installed and will 
resist installing a second package manager.

> Alex had the idea of making a Debian repository, so we just update
> sources.list and run "apt-get install odfviewer".
> 
> I'm wondering if I can get away with using the same repository for RPM
> systems. I certainly don't want to maintain a Yum and an Urpmi
> repository in addition to Debian and then get flack from SuSE users. I
> was thinking that I could ship an rpm for smart (it only adds 800KB) and
> use smart to install on RPM systems from the Debian repository.

Why not use the right channels and get ODF Viewer included in all those 
distros?

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