up2date vs. yum

[John Summerfied]

Michael D. Berger wrote:
> Which to use?  The fedora web page recommends yum,
> and it sounds yummy, but up2date blinks attractively.
> What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

up2date does these that, when I last looked, yum didn't:
1. Download without installing (good for crontab)
2. Fetch source
3. Get a package w/o dependencies

Items one and two are important to me.

apt-get does even more: eg
build-dep - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
but sadly its future here is limited. NIH problem one suspects.


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