Smartrpm was (Re: Fedora Core 4)

Jonathan Andrews jon at jonshouse.co.uk
Thu Jan 20 18:45:00 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 18:24, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> ons, 19.01.2005 kl. 18.04 skrev Jonathan Andrews:
> > Im no novice user - nor an expert, but somebody please tell me what
> > yum/up2date has that apt/synaptic doesn't ?
> > 
> > I've been using apt/synaptic against core 3 and im beginning to think
> > that yum is a political move not a technical one ?
> > 
> > Sorry if this annoys - im not trying to troll
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > 
> 
> apt doesn't have multilib support.

Yum doesn't have a good front end ?  What would be quicker - add a
quality front end to yum or add multilib to apt/synaptic ... I bet I
know ;-)

Isn't this just a packaging niceness, divide packages into arch and
noarch halves and the problem goes away - or am I being naive ?

Jon


 




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