"apt" to eventaully replace "rpm"?
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sun Nov 25 12:56:00 UTC 2007
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> a book i'm reading contains the sentence:
>
> "It remains to be seen whether Apt will become the preferred tool for
> package management for RPM users."
>
> i was unaware that that was even a possibility. is it?
>
> rday
>
> ========================================================================
> Robert P. J. Day
> Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
> Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>
> http://crashcourse.ca
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>
>
That sounds like a writer with Debian experience and a feeling Apt
is easier than RPM. There are some things in RPM that are quite odd. I
think Apt is a simpler method. I have ubuntu-7.10 loaded and it uses Apt
and it seems to update as well as RPM.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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