Do yum and up2date play nice? -- detail

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:37:49 -0500, seth vidal <skvidal at 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.

Dotan Cohen
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