I find apt4rpm to be a very clumsy tool to use. Even Debian has largely abandoned the artificial distinction between apt-get and apt-cache. Aptitude, like Yum, is much easier to use. Thankfully, Aptitude does not insist on doing a cache update before every transaction. I'm surprised that the Yum developers decided that spending five seconds between every single command to check for repository changes was a good idea.
Richard Esplin On Thursday 21 July 2005 14:13, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 12:47 -0600, Doran Barton wrote: > > apt4rpm was a great blessing when it first came on the scene, but it is > > and always will be a hack to superimpose apt package management (designed > > for Debian) on top of RPM packages. Yum, on the other hand, was built > > from the ground up for RPM. > > apt has always been designed to be somewhat free of the underlying > packing system. Thus it's not a hack to impose apt on rpm. It's just a > natural progression and it works every bit as well as on debian, save > that debian packages have some built in configurability and finer > grained packages than rpm. Except for that, rpm == deb (as in > equivalence). And this apt is equally adept and comfortable in the RPM > world. > > Yum was built to handle some of the specific idiosyncrasies of RPM. > This is undeniable. > > > Trust me guys, apt4rpm taught the RPM world a lesson and yum is the > > response. It has crossed the threshold and can hold its own now. There's > > a reason the third-party RPM repository maintainers (e.g. Dag, freshRPMs, > > Dries, etc.) are advocating yum over apt4rpm. I held onto apt4rpm for a > > while too, but I never looked back once I made the switch. > > I use both apt4rpm and yum on the same machines (FC3 and FC4). I like > yum for the group install thing, but I still use apt for installing > individual packages; it just is faster. Anyway, both systems work great > and can even be used on the same system, so no big deal. > > I have Dag, Freshrpms, all the rpmforge repositories, plus extras and > standard FC stock channels all working with yum and apt. > > I'm not ready to completely abandon one for the other. I need them > both. .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
