APT, Yum and Red Carpet
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at welho.com
Tue Aug 12 12:48:25 UTC 2003
Quoting Hans Deragon <hans at deragon.biz>:
> >>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.
The big thing here is to get all the updaters support a common repository
metadata format, once that's done everybody gets to choose their favorite
updater/installer. It's being talked about but there's a long way to go...
- Panu -
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