I was wondering why fedora has choosen yum over apt-get

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 20:08, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 14:00, Alexandre de Abreu wrote:
> > Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > > What are the key benefits of yum over apt-get cause I got a friend telling
> > > me yum is crap and I should switch to apt-get in stead.
> > > Apt-get goes really fast in comparisment to yum.
> > > But I tell him there must be a good reason why fedora uses yum, I only don't
> > > know what :).
> > > 
> > > Can someone explain it to me.
> > 
> > Read this document and free your mind:
> > http://www.linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/questions.ptml
> 
> don't read that document.
> Much of it is out of date now. Panu and Gustavo have done a bunch of
> work to make some of the things mentioned a bout apt no longer valid.
> The part about it being a lot of code is still true but <shrug>.

Yep, it's a lot of code, especially compared to yum, and not
particularly easy to understand either. OTOH a software whose tar.bz is
under a megabyte is hardly huge these days, compared to various other
OSS projects :)

	- Panu -