On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:03:34PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > A matter of perspective: To me, the decision to base a system tool on a > scripted language isn't necessarily clever. Fairly easy to maintain, but > very demanding on resources and on package dependencies and rather > unstable/error-prone at runtime. Since there were already decent and maintained Python bindings for RPM because of anaconda, that's less of an issue. (Somewhat ironically, anaconda itself now uses yum....) > Besides this, yum and apt are "just different", each has advantages and > disadvantages. *nod* -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
