yum and apt differences.

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:47:10PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> * yum ignores kernel updates by default, but apt doesn't.
> * yum doesn't auto install any gpg keys, but apt does.
> 
> Should we not try to make these consistent between yum and apt?  Or
> is the yum/apt history that says they should act differently?

I brought this up at the time I packaged yum, but there was no
consensus other than yum should behave the same way up2date did (which
is why it exludes kernels by default), and root's gpg keyring
shouldn't be messed with automatically by the package.

Does anyone use apt non-interactively, i.e. via cron?  If not, then
these differences don't matter too much I guess.  I view apt as a
nicer user interface, more featureful sysadmin tool to be used
interactively, not as an autoupdate mechanism.