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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:30:01PM -0500, Jon Agirre wrote: > > >If anyone out there is still managing their Linux machines without > >either yum or apt, please, have a look. (Fedora used to use both, but > >most people seem to have adopted yum in preference to apt. I have no > >idea if there is any technical reason to prefer one over the other.) > > this may happen because the major professionally supported distributions > (Redhat, SuSE, Madriva, etc.) rely, or relied in the past, on rpm > packages. deb packages come from the non commercial, professionally > unsupported world. > Just to clear this up - the inclusion of yum in fedora does not stem from an rpm versus deb thing (for more on rpm vs. deb, see: http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/faq.html#q17), its mostly due to yum's multiarch support (i.e. resolving i386 vs. x86_64 issues), among a few others (e.g. mirror lists). Most of the apt vs. yum confusion will hopefully fall to the wayside once smartrpm (smartrpm.org) stabilizes. HTH, Tim -- --------------------------------------------------------- Tim Fenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stanford University, School of Medicine James H. Clark Center 318 Campus Drive, Room E300 Stanford, CA 94305-5432 Phone: (650) 736-1714 FAX: (650) 736-1961 ---------------------------------------------------------
