Add/Remove/(K)Yum/Apt-Get -- Which is best?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 01:04 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Benjamin Sher <delphi123 at zebra.net> wrote:
> > Dear friends:
> >
> > Would you recommend installing apt (or kapt)? If so, when would you use it?
> > And would you use it only with Fedora's approved repositories or with any
> > repositories (e.g. Debian apt)?
> >
> > Which is preferable: (K)yum, Add/Remove or apt-get?
Would you prefer Coke or Pepsi?

Seriously, both are different tools trying to accomplish the same tasks.
They differ in details both with pros and cons.

> Yum replaces up2date and is the default package updater/maintainer
> application for Fedora. If you want a GUI install yumex.
> 
> I would not recommend installing apt-get because it is getting harder
> to find apt-get based repositories for Fedora.

The latter half of your sentence is true, there aren't many apt enabled
repos anymore, but ... the apt-get in FE also supports metadata-repos
(aka yum repos) - so this argument is void.

Ralf