<http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/read/prev/1525030.htm>
The following is good.
From:
http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/pet_peeve_apt_vs_rpm.htm
"I had already had enough of this two years ago, and it's still
happening. I'm technical editing a book and the author is directly
comparing APT to RPM. NO! NO NO NO NO NO (okay, so I sound like a two
year old, but it's wrong)! RPM is a package management scheme, just as
DEB is for Debian style packages. That's why the packages end in .rpm or
.deb. APT and YUM are tools for grabbing packages, resolving
dependencies, and so on, that can handle particular package types. Do
you see .apt packages? Do you see .yum packages? No. You see .rpm and
.deb. Please, please, please, enough insisting on comparing apples to
oranges. Repeat after me:
1. RPM and DEB are package management schemes. Hence, .rpm and .deb.
2. APT and YUM are package retrieval and dependency resolving tools
used to make it easier to install and remove .rpm and/or .deb
packages from a variety of locations.
There. I feel better. Now if the steam would just stop coming out of my
ears."
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