apt vs yum

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Tue Oct 14 17:03:52 UTC 2003


On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Tom Diehl wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> 
> > Is one or the other going to be the "preferred" method besides up2date,
> > or are both going to continue to be supported in the free area?  It
> > sounds like yum is the preferred method, but still lots of people using
> > apt, so wasn't sure.
> 
> I think it is pretty much a matter of which side of the religion you wish
> to be on. Personally I lean toward yum but that is just me.

I think currently redhat favours yum. It is part of the core
distribution (while apt is not). And it has 'yum' header stuff at
ftp.redhat.com [rawhide] - which means rawhide at ALL redhat mirrors
is useable from yum.

Satish





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