Re: yum vs. apt

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Peter Cannon wrote:

| On Tuesday 23 November 2004 15:45, Axel Thimm wrote:
|
|> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:52:16AM -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote:
|>
|>> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 09:24 -0500, Mark Bradford wrote:
|>>
|>>> I have been using apt for installs and updating/upgrading,
|>>> but am noticing most of the conversation here seems to favor
|>>> yum.  Is there any significant difference between the two, or
|>>> are there any issues or conflicts in using both?
|>>
|>> FC3 repositories seem to be dropping apt support,
|
|
| Well I use apt with Synaptic front end without any problems the
| list of repos that is installed by default is impressive covering
| various RedHat releases.
|
| With regards to Newbies IMHO this is a better option than yum due
| to that dreaded word GUI with Synaptic you can see everything
| available at a glance, use it to un-install things and it sorts out
| the dependencies it will also select additional packages for
| install if required so if a novice selects something and doesn't
| realise another bit is needed they wont get in a mess.
|
| As others have said yumi doesn't work (at the moment) apt offered
| to install it and it is installed but it cries about cannot import
| client something or other.
|
Just curious, Has anyone heard of porting Synaptic to work with yum?
May be a horrible idea.

MC
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