Add/Remove/(K)Yum/Apt-Get -- Which is best?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 02:20 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 01:04 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > On 2/5/07, Benjamin Sher <delphi123 at zebra.net> wrote:
> > > > Dear friends:
> > > >
> > > > Would you recommend installing apt (or kapt)? If so, when would you use it?
> > > > And would you use it only with Fedora's approved repositories or with any
> > > > repositories (e.g. Debian apt)?
> > > >
> > > > Which is preferable: (K)yum, Add/Remove or apt-get?
> > Would you prefer Coke or Pepsi?
> >
> > Seriously, both are different tools trying to accomplish the same tasks.
> > They differ in details both with pros and cons.
> >
> > > Yum replaces up2date and is the default package updater/maintainer
> > > application for Fedora. If you want a GUI install yumex.
> > >
> > > I would not recommend installing apt-get because it is getting harder
> > > to find apt-get based repositories for Fedora.
> >
> > The latter half of your sentence is true, there aren't many apt enabled
> > repos anymore, but ... the apt-get in FE also supports metadata-repos
> > (aka yum repos) - so this argument is void.
> >
> 
> Many releases ago the primary reasons I had as a Red Hat/Fedora user
> to install apt-get were 1) various packages were only available on
> apt-enabled repositories and 2) apt-get was better [faster speed] than
> up2date. I also installed yum because it was better [faster and more
> features] than up2date. Up2date is gone and the remaining apt-enabled
> repos support yum. Why should a Fedora user install apt-get?

Basically, because both tools do not provide the same features. Yum
lacks things apt provides and conversely.

Most "normal users" won't notice these differences, but advanced users
will. Also users with a yum background will not miss those features,
apt-get provides (e.g. apt-get --fix-missing, apt-get sources, apt-get
build-requires, pinning, apt-get update/operating offline).

Ralf