It was Wed Nov 07 at 02:40PM when Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> "G. Matthew Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Someone commented last week that we should be testing more than
> > just apt-get for the deb side of the exam.
> > My questions on that side are, should we:
> >   1. test awareness of the apt-* tool set?
> >   2. test ability to use the apt-* tool set?
> >   3. dump dselect? :)
> 
> Test DPKG when you test RPM.
> Test APT when you test YUM.
> 
> APT !~ RPM, APT ~ YUM.  ;)
> 
> And if you consider Portage, then test it when you test for APT/YUM
> (not DPKG/RPM).
> 
> I'm not saying you should test these, I'm just saying they are the
> relationships between the different packging tools (and port-source
> in the case of Portage).

for the sake of completeness, on Gentoo it would be

ebuild in the rpm, dpkg camp
emerge in the yum, apt camp

-- 
regards,
Bart Van Loon

   I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and
happiness.        -- Calvin
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