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Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>

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+The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart
+and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing
+software upgrades and installation. 
+This tool works in all major distributions and will bring notable advantages
+over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).
+
+Notice that this project is not a magical bridge between every distribution in
+the planet. Instead, this is software offering better package management for
+these distributions when working with their native packages. Using multiple 
+packaging systems at the same time (like rpm and dpkg) is possible but would
+require packages from those systems to follow the same packaging guidelines.
+As a general rule, mixing packaging systems is not recommended.
+
+Smart supports the following repository formats as source channels:
+
+RPM repositories
+  RPM System Database (locally installed packages)
+  APT repositories for .rpm
+  RPM-MD (used by YUM)
+  Red Carpet (used by Ximian/Novell)
+
+  RPM Header List (used by RedHat and Conectiva installation CDs)
+  RPM Directory (a directory with a bunch of RPMs in it, no indexing required)
+  URPMI (used by Mandriva) 
+
+DEB repositories
+  DEB System Database (locally installed packages)
+  APT repositories for .deb
+  DEB Directory (a directory with a bunch of DEBs in it, no indexing required) 
+
+Slackware
+  Slackware installed packages database
+  Slackware repositories 
+
+Mirrors
+  up2date (used by RedHat/Fedora)
+  Conectiva-style mirror description formats