can yum remove old packages?

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 7:27 pm, Colin J Thomson wrote:
>
> Indeed, we should mention that Synaptic is a front end for APT :)
> I have found (just my experience) APT to handle the "OP's" situations quite
> well, however I have never experienced problems with that large number of
> dupes.
>
Yes - I wasn't suggesting he dump Yum for Apt, though. I actually have rotated 
through various package managers and have gravitated back to command line yum 
for most sessions. I tried apt for awhile, but, I found the robustness of 
support for the system to be a little less. Nothing huge. But, for doing 
quick compares of what's installed to what's available, and for quickly 
seeing issues like multiple installed versions of a package, the interface is 
great. I continue to use Synaptic for just that purpose. 

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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA