On 3/25/09 11:27 PM, "Patrick Spinler" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I consistently see this complaint, and it really rubs me wrong.  Why
> does everyone compare rpm to apt?  Wouldn't rpm to deb be the correct
> comparison, and then compare yum to apt?

Because the distribution vendors continue to conflate the packaging format
with the configuration management tool. Debian made a proper separation of
the two. 

> comparing rpm to apt just
> doesn't fly.

See above. Using the language they use.

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