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

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 10:58 -0700, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> These are the probable reasons:
> A) Seth works at Duke in North Carolina. A proportion of Red Hat works
> at Raleigh in North Carolina. 
> B) yum is written in python and so fits with the core Red Hat tool-kit
> of writing all tools in python.
> 
> While most conspiraicies would have that Red Hat considers 'apt as the
> tool of the Debil'.. I think the 2 above are much more likely.

I believe that too, however I add a third reason...

C) misconceptions about apt vs yum similar to the misconceptions about
rpm vs apt :) in the sense that some people compare really petty things,
sometimes without thinking them over much.

Rui

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