yum and apt differences.

[David Rees]

On Fri, February 20, 2004 at 4:56 pm, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> 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.

It seems that people either prefer to use yum or apt and tend to not mix
the two.  People familiar with apt will very likely use it
non-interactively via cron, especially those who come from a Debian
background.  apt for Fedora Legacy should probably behave like the
original apt, unless there is a good reason not to.

-Dave