Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

[suvayu ali]

2009/9/12 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> On 09/13/2009 03:17 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
>
>>
>> Does it use rpm as the back end? I thought synaptic is an exclusively
>> dpkg/apt-get front end.
>
> It uses apt-rpm in Fedora.
>

Forgive my ignorance here Rahul, but does that mean apt-rpm does what
yum would do? Would it work with the usual set of the repositories for
fedora? And if I use synaptic do I still get to use yum on the command
line?

I also came across the home page for apt-rpm[1], it seems the project
has been abandoned. An article on wikipedia[2] says the lead developer
has moved on to develop smart, which he considers as the successor to
apt-rpm.

[1]http://apt-rpm.org/
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apt-rpm
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Suvayu

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