William Hooper became daring and sent these 0.7K bytes, > > 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. Ok, my opinions seem to have been pretty skewed lately, sorry for the problems, i guess i need more sleep. -- 0 1 0 Aaron M Matteson - GnuPG:0xD144B7FF 0 0 1 Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, 1 1 1 it should be hard to understand! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://cryptosystem.us/ - Project http://cryptosystem.us/blog/ - Blog http://mindstorm.ath.cx:8080/ - Wiki
