Aaron Matteson said: > >> up2date can make use of yum repositories, that's all. > > Perhaps i am wrong, but i would call soemthing that makes use of another > somethings resources a front-end function. So up2date is a front end to apt? > A front end makes use of a > service, not neccissarily a front-end to the application. You have a weird definition of "front-end". You would say Mozilla is a httpd "front-end"? Or Samba is a Win2000 "front-end"? Up2date can use apt or yum repositories, but uses neither the apt or yum program. -- William Hooper
