yum vs. apt

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:22:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > and apt does not
> > handle multi-arch (i386 vs x86_64, PPC, ...).
> In its native environment it does this just fine. Debian boasts 13 or so 
> architechtures and such a limitation would be intolerable

I think you're misunderstanding. It's not a question of whether it can
handle different architectures at all (it certainly can) but whether it can
properly handle the mix-n-match thing that x86_64 Fedora Core uses. I
believe Debian has opted to avoid the problem entirely by sticking to pure
64bit apps on x86_64.


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