yum vs. apt

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Phil Schaffner wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 09:24 -0500, Mark Bradford wrote:
> > I have been using apt for installs and updating/upgrading, but am
> > noticing most of the conversation here seems to favor yum.  Is there any
> > significant difference between the two, or are there any issues or
> > conflicts in using both?
>
> FC3 repositories seem to be dropping apt support, and apt does not
> handle multi-arch (i386 vs x86_64, PPC, ...).  Has been some talk of an
> apt version able to use the new yum repository meta-data, but so far
> seems to be vaporware.  I've pretty much dropped apt in favor of yum,
> but apt/synaptic still seem viable for FC2 and earlier.

Given the apparent trend, it would be nice to have a GUI front end for yum
with capabilites similar to synaptic.  Does such a beast exist?

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		Matthew Saltzman

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