apt vs yum

[Pekka Pietikainen]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:01:41PM -0400, Noah Silva [Mailing list] 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.
> 
> Seems like "redhat people" like YUM better, while "Debian people" like APT
> better.. then again it was a rh based distro that ported APT.
> 
> APT supposedly did some dirty tricks with RPM in the past..
> then again YUM seems to me infinitely slower than apt, and I like being
> able to use the same tool on my debian and redhat machines.
apt is a bit nicer to use, although it's a bit too anal about dependancies
IMHO.

yum is a lot easier to setup on the server end. Hhopefully this 
has been improved for apt lately, setting up the directory hierarchy for
it was not trivial last time I tried it.

Personally I use yum, mostly because it's in the distro and rawhide
repositories are everywhere.

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Pekka Pietikainen