Do yum and up2date play nice? -- detail

[Nils Breunese]

Dotan Cohen:

> Another difference: in synaptic you can browse for packages. AFAIK you
> can't do that with yum.

That's like comparing apples to oranges. Synaptic is a GUI for apt; yum
is not a GUI, it's a CLI app like apt. You can browse for packages with
yum as a backend using one of the many yum GUI frontends (gyum, yum
extender, yummi, etc.). Maybe synaptic is more mature at te moment than
the various yum frontends, but I believe a lot of work is being put into
them, so I guess it's getting better (disclaimer: I have not used any
yum frontends).

I used apt and synaptic on FC1 and FC2, but switched to yum with FC3.
Not really sure why, but it works just fine. One thing though: every yum
command you issue does a full refresh of the header files from the
enabled repositories, which takes some time. I liked apt's separation
with apt-get update (to update header files from repo's), apt-get
upgrade (to upgrade packages) and other commands (like searching),
although I do think with apt at first there might be some confusion as
to what the difference between update and upgrade is. At least with yum
your header files are always up to date. :)

Nils Breunese.