APT, Yum and Red Carpet

[Hans Deragon]

>>Is apt going to make it, or just yum?  (Or, in other words, am I really
>>gonna have to break down and learn yum?)

IMHO, we should stick with one upgrade system only.  Lets take the best 
and support it.  The last thing I want is a community with full of 
repositories, half apt and half yum.  Its time to make a standard for 
package distribution within Red Hat and we should use one system wisely. 
  I do not care which one it is, as long as it is the best.

It would be very couterproductive for my grandma to have to use apt for 
installing one appl, and yum for installing another.  Imagine that she 
has to first browse the list of apps available through apt, do not find 
the software and then browse through the list of apps on yum.  Not very 
intuitive.  Not the way to go.  This is one case where competition is 
not welcomed, but a standard is.

However, apt has synaptic available as GUI.  I am not aware of a GUI for 
yum.  For a desktop machine, a GUI is a must.

There is also ximian's red carpet that could do the work.

BTW, I joined the mailing list a week ago.  I presume that the debate of 
yum vs apt has already been done.  Sorry if I repeat info here again.


Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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