"apt" to eventaully replace "rpm"?

[Karl Larsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   a book i'm reading contains the sentence:
>
> "It remains to be seen whether Apt will become the preferred tool for
> package management for RPM users."
>
>   i was unaware that that was even a possibility.  is it?
>
> rday
>
> ========================================================================
> Robert P. J. Day
> Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
> Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>
> http://crashcourse.ca
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>
>   
    That sounds like a writer with Debian experience and a feeling Apt 
is easier than RPM. There are some things in RPM that are quite odd. I 
think Apt is a simpler method. I have ubuntu-7.10 loaded and it uses Apt 
and it seems to update as well as RPM.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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