yum vs apt-get

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:03:34PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> A matter of perspective: To me, the decision to base a system tool on a
> scripted language isn't necessarily clever. Fairly easy to maintain, but
> very demanding on resources and on package dependencies and rather
> unstable/error-prone at runtime. 

Since there were already decent and maintained Python bindings for RPM
because of anaconda, that's less of an issue. (Somewhat ironically, anaconda
itself now uses yum....)

> Besides this, yum and apt are "just different", each has advantages and
> disadvantages.

*nod*



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