On Monday 03 January 2005 00:02, Aaron Gaudio wrote: >On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 18:18 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: >> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 18:58 -0500, Jim wrote: >> > thank you all for the sugestions the apt-get method seems to >> > be pretty cool! why hasn't this been built into the fedora >> > kernel as of yet?? >> >> I for one do NOT EVER want to have apt-get, yum, up2date, or any >> other of the many update tools built into the kernel > >[..snip..] > >That was a long reply to someone who probably didn't mean for it to > be technically in the kernel. > >Jim, if you meant why isn't it in the core distribution... that's a > good question. I thought Fedora Core 2 included apt in it, but core > 3 doesn't appear to. For some reason they seem to favor yum, which > I stopped using after about 5 minutes of seeing how slow it was > compared to apt (plus, I don't know if they have a GUI yet). I > think up2date supports both apt and yum. > yes, there is a gui for yum, named yumi. I wonder why... Its also probably not quite uptodate with the latest fc3 version of yum unless its been brought uptodate without any sounding of the hearalding horns. >-- >Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
