FC3 - Has the community given up on up2date?

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 11 21:31:11 UTC 2004


nodata said:
>> Has the community given up on up2date?
>>
>
> I think so, yes. If not, why was yum developed?

For the record, yum was developed prior to the announcement of the Fedora
Project, not because of it.

[snip]

> A healthy bit of competition between yum and apt is always good, but I
> can't see a good reason for up2date any more - is there one? :)

It supports more metadata formats than both yum and apt put together.

-- 
William Hooper




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