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

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Feb 10 18:08:02 UTC 2004


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Much of it is out of date now.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work to make some of the things mentioned a bout apt no longer valid.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>.

-sv








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