up2date is yum?

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 22:18 -0500, Erik Hemdal wrote:
> Up2date traditionally "phoned home" to servers at Red Hat, as part of the for-pay Red Hat Network.  On Fedora, up2date serves as a front-end to yum.

up2date is *not* a front-end to yum; whilst it can access yum-style
repositories, it can also access apt-style repositories (which yum
cannot) and does not share a codebase with yum. In fact, you could quite
happily remove both yum and up2date-gnome (the GUI) and the console-
based up2date client would still work just fine.

Paul.
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