On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:37:49 -0500, seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:16 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> a quick sumup:
>
> synaptic is a nice GUI for apt.
>
> up2date is only usefull to show pending updates
>
> yum is only usefull after fc2 (IMO), unless you are dealing with
> multilib.
>
> So for fc<3, use apt. For fc>3, use yum. If x86_64, use yum.
>
> That is the simple explanation.
I disagree, of course, if you're looking for repositories you're going
to have more luck finding yum repositories for FC-2.
-sv
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Another difference: in synaptic you can browse for packages. AFAIK you
can't do that with yum.
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