On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 02:20 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On 2/5/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 01:04 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > > > On 2/5/07, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Dear friends: > > > > > > > > Would you recommend installing apt (or kapt)? If so, when would you use it? > > > > And would you use it only with Fedora's approved repositories or with any > > > > repositories (e.g. Debian apt)? > > > > > > > > Which is preferable: (K)yum, Add/Remove or apt-get? > > Would you prefer Coke or Pepsi? > > > > Seriously, both are different tools trying to accomplish the same tasks. > > They differ in details both with pros and cons. > > > > > Yum replaces up2date and is the default package updater/maintainer > > > application for Fedora. If you want a GUI install yumex. > > > > > > I would not recommend installing apt-get because it is getting harder > > > to find apt-get based repositories for Fedora. > > > > The latter half of your sentence is true, there aren't many apt enabled > > repos anymore, but ... the apt-get in FE also supports metadata-repos > > (aka yum repos) - so this argument is void. > > > > Many releases ago the primary reasons I had as a Red Hat/Fedora user > to install apt-get were 1) various packages were only available on > apt-enabled repositories and 2) apt-get was better [faster speed] than > up2date. I also installed yum because it was better [faster and more > features] than up2date. Up2date is gone and the remaining apt-enabled > repos support yum. Why should a Fedora user install apt-get? Basically, because both tools do not provide the same features. Yum lacks things apt provides and conversely. Most "normal users" won't notice these differences, but advanced users will. Also users with a yum background will not miss those features, apt-get provides (e.g. apt-get --fix-missing, apt-get sources, apt-get build-requires, pinning, apt-get update/operating offline). Ralf
