mplayer

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Jan 3 05:07:00 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:02:10AM -0500, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> Jim, if you meant why isn't it in the core distribution... that's a good
> question. I thought Fedora Core 2 included apt in it, but core 3 doesn't
> appear to. For some reason they seem to favor yum, which I stopped using
> after about 5 minutes of seeing how slow it was compared to apt (plus, I
> don't know if they have a GUI yet). I think up2date supports both apt
> and yum.

apt is great, but it doesn't support mixing multiple archs on one system,
which won't work with Fedora x86_64. So it's out.


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