Do yum and up2date play nice? -- detail

[Powell, James F CONT]

> 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.

But with 3rd party apps, like yumi, you can browse, etc with yum.  It's not as advanced a GUI as some, but it is functional and works nicely.

Jim Powell
Senior Scientist/Engineer
L3 Communications GSI
AV-8B Harrier Support