On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:03:29PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: > yum has at least two advantages over apt: > 1) it's been written to support RPM "natively", where apt(rpm) is "just" a > port of apt to support an > RPM subsystem instead of dpkg (the Debian package manager, which it was > originally written and still > actively maintained for) > 2) creating yum repositories is very easy, straightforward and fast; creating > apt(rpm) repositories > is magnitudes slower and a little more complex to set up > > On the other hand, what speaks for apt is that it has been used a lot, since > a long time, it's > definately a very stable and well functioning piece of software, although > those arguments are voided > a little because apt(rpm) is a port, not the one used by all the Debian folks.
Another very importand difference is that yum repo's are usable with YaST and apt is not. (at least for 10.0 onwards) and YaST is from a users point of view the ultimate instalation tool for SUSE. > The longterm plan is this: http://smartpm.org Will this be usable with YaST as well? As a user I am not really interested wether a repo is yum, apt, smartpm, YaST or a bunch of zip files. As long as I can use it with YaST I am happy. I understand that for the repo maintainers it is an issue and I hope that smartpm can satisfy both parties. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
