OT Sorry!!

[William Hooper]

Aaron Matteson said:
>
>> up2date can make use of yum repositories, that's all.
>
> Perhaps i am wrong, but i would call soemthing that makes use of another
> somethings resources a front-end function.

So up2date is a front end to apt?

> A front end makes use of a
> service, not neccissarily a front-end to the application.

You have a weird definition of "front-end".  You would say Mozilla is a
httpd "front-end"?  Or Samba is a Win2000 "front-end"?

Up2date can use apt or yum repositories, but uses neither the apt or yum
program.

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William Hooper