APT, Yum and Red Carpet
>Is apt going to make it, or just yum? (Or, in other words, am I
really
>gonna have to break down and learn yum?)
IMHO, we should stick with one upgrade system only. Lets take the best
and support it. The last thing I want is a community with full of
repositories, half apt and half yum. Its time to make a standard for
package distribution within Red Hat and we should use one system wisely.
I do not care which one it is, as long as it is the best.
It would be very couterproductive for my grandma to have to use apt for
installing one appl, and yum for installing another. Imagine that she
has to first browse the list of apps available through apt, do not find
the software and then browse through the list of apps on yum. Not very
intuitive. Not the way to go. This is one case where competition is
not welcomed, but a standard is.
However, apt has synaptic available as GUI. I am not aware of a GUI for
yum. For a desktop machine, a GUI is a must.
There is also ximian's red carpet that could do the work.
BTW, I joined the mailing list a week ago. I presume that the debate of
yum vs apt has already been done. Sorry if I repeat info here again.
Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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