On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, 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, and apt does not > handle multi-arch (i386 vs x86_64, PPC, ...). Has been some talk of an > apt version able to use the new yum repository meta-data, but so far > seems to be vaporware. I've pretty much dropped apt in favor of yum, > but apt/synaptic still seem viable for FC2 and earlier. Given the apparent trend, it would be nice to have a GUI front end for yum with capabilites similar to synaptic. Does such a beast exist? -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
