OT: Apt-get vs YUM?

[Timothy Murphy]

Karl Larsen wrote:

> I got the yum-utils package and tried yum package-cleanup --problems
> does not work. Do not know why not.

What do you mean by "does not work".
I just ran it on a system upgraded from FC-5 to Fedora-7,
and it worked perfectly - found 36 problems.

[I upgraded from FC-5 because I found this old system on the machine,
and didn't want to destroy my FC-6 system, in case Fedora-7 didn't work.
As it happened, it worked perfectly - 
on a PIII Katmai 450MHz machine with 400MB RAM -
though it took about 6 hours to upgrade.]

This led me to install (too late!) the yum-fastestmirror package,
and I was quite impressed with the number of yum plugins available.
My impression is that good work is being done to make yum 
as versatile as possible, and I certainly would not think of changing
to anything else.

Incidentally, I always run "package-cleanup --cleandupes" just in case;
it sorted out problems on another machine.



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