On 2/5/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 01:04 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On 2/5/07, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear friends: > > > > Would you recommend installing apt (or kapt)? If so, when would you use it? > > And would you use it only with Fedora's approved repositories or with any > > repositories (e.g. Debian apt)? > > > > Which is preferable: (K)yum, Add/Remove or apt-get? Would you prefer Coke or Pepsi? Seriously, both are different tools trying to accomplish the same tasks. They differ in details both with pros and cons. > Yum replaces up2date and is the default package updater/maintainer > application for Fedora. If you want a GUI install yumex. > > I would not recommend installing apt-get because it is getting harder > to find apt-get based repositories for Fedora. The latter half of your sentence is true, there aren't many apt enabled repos anymore, but ... the apt-get in FE also supports metadata-repos (aka yum repos) - so this argument is void.
Many releases ago the primary reasons I had as a Red Hat/Fedora user to install apt-get were 1) various packages were only available on apt-enabled repositories and 2) apt-get was better [faster speed] than up2date. I also installed yum because it was better [faster and more features] than up2date. Up2date is gone and the remaining apt-enabled repos support yum. Why should a Fedora user install apt-get?
Ralf
