OT: Apt-get vs YUM?

[Matej Cepl]

On 2007-06-21, 12:31 GMT, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> * better handling of broken dependencies: apt-get dist-upgrade 
> can automatically remove packages which have broken 
> dependencies (of course it asks first!), and apt can also do 
> a partial upgrade if some of the packages in the updates 
> repository have broken dependencies. With yum, you'll have fun 
> with manually removing packages in the first case and --exclude 
> in the second.

Don't want to fight on any side of this perenial religious war, 
but just to note that package-cleanup --problems (package-cleanup 
is in yum-utils package) works pretty well for the first issue.  
Not sure about the other one (I would try --disablerepo or 
--exclude, or maybe that there is some plugin for that, don't 
know).

Matej