apt or yum?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sat, 15 May 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 06:59:05PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > Sure "source" and "build-dep" and such work in apt-rpm as well. In fact 
> > apt-rpm is in many ways far more advanced than "Debian apt". See 
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/60650/ for a list of some killer features (IMHO) 
> > in apt-rpm which are not present in Debian version.
> 
> My favorite one is installing packages by filename. That's so useful.

Indeed (and dont forget installing by an arbitrary URL either :)
AFAIK apt is the only one of the depsolvers which supports that, or at
least that was the case last I checked. I know Adrian wants to add that
support to up2date (there is/was a comment in up2date source about that
being "unnecessarily difficult to do at the moment"), dunno if Seth is
considering adding that to yum.

	- Panu -