will future cd's be apt

duncan brown duncanbrown at email.com
Mon Apr 5 19:10:39 UTC 2004


the fedora team (the one external to redhat, but still a vital part of fc1/fc2) maintain an apt and yum repository, along with MANY packages that do not come with the standard fc install.

http://www.fedora.us

and, as far as desktop use is concerned, i think synaptic is better than apt and yum, also =]

-d

----- Original Message -----
From: n_powell <nathan at lagerbottom.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 21:45:39 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: will future cd's be apt

> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 02:35:04 +0100
> thus spake Martin Alderson <mail at martinalderson.co.uk>:
> 
> > > Is the Fedora Core 2 cd's going to be apt enabled
> > > will redhat enable apt to be used with their up2date servers
> > 
> > For what it's worth, I agree completly.
> > Thats my 2 cents anyway..
> 
> I would like to third that.  Apt is a full head and shoulders above yum.
> IMNSHO.  I am not sure why it is not part of FC now. - Just incase the
> devel team reads any of this :)
> 
> 
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