Some thoughts about yum and repositories

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 00:14 -0800, Michael wrote:
> I have wondered why yum is used instead of something that feels more 
> polished such as rug with it's very user-friendly client Red Carpet? It 
> seems to be GPL as is the required server software needed, OpenCarpet. 
> It seems much more professional and polished to me. I like it better 
> than yum or apt.
> 

And you are more than welcome to use it in that case... one of the
beauties and freedoms of Open Source Software.

However, Red Hat, Inc. and the Fedora Project have chosen to develop and
support the up2date package management program, and Fedora also includes
and supports Seth Vidal's yum package management program.

Apt is not specifically supported, nor is Red Carpet. They cannot
support *everything*... you are certainly allowed to use it, but the
distro has chosen to use and prefer up2date and yum.

Cheers,

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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