yum vs apt-get

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jul 14 01:56:20 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:13 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.
Well, try getting a current yum running on older Linux systems, ...

Ralf







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