APT, Yum and Red Carpet

[Panu Matilainen]

Quoting Hans Deragon <hans at deragon.biz>:

> >>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.

The big thing here is to get all the updaters support a common repository
metadata format, once that's done everybody gets to choose their favorite
updater/installer. It's being talked about but there's a long way to go...

    - Panu -