yum vs. apt

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:42:19AM +0000, Peter Cannon wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 November 2004 03:15, you wrote:
> 
> > Just curious, Has anyone heard of porting Synaptic to work with yum?
> > May be a horrible idea.
> 
> I think the idea has bean raised there is conflicting advice regarding yum, 
> up2date and apt-get working together some people have told me there isnt a 
> problem apart from having three cache files which can get very large while 
> others state that on no account should all three be run at the same time.
> 
> With this Dell Laptop I used up2date for the first two days then yum for about 
> a week then, and from now on, I'm using apt-get with Synaptic front end I 
> only had one problem when I enabled ATrpms it wanted to install stuff that 
> was already there?

You mean apt/synaptic wanted to reinstall packages? Perhaps a missing
apt-get update?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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