"Smart is a meta-package manager in the spirit of APT, YUM, URPMI and others.
"It's a cross-distribution tool that can manage RPM, DEB and Slackware packages but what makes Smart apart is a dependency-solving algorithm that outperforms other package managers. It currently supports several repository formats, including those used by APT, YUM and URPMI. By the way, in Smart, repositories are called 'channels...'"
