Just as a side note, this is probably not the place to have such a poorly worded, useless argument. Or set of disconnected arguments, as the case seems to be. --Chris On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 08:20, Timothy Webster wrote: > Use apt > > Why bother with yum? Does it really make since to have 2 > repository systems, 2 none interchangable tools. > > Make yum read apt configs and repositories. Then yum might > have a chance of surviving until next year. > Otherwise everyone is going to follow the standard > and forget yum. > > > apt/yum needs to have the following debian tools > aptitude > apt-listbugs > apt-listchanges > > Every system administrator needs to see the fixed bugs > and outstanding bugs. > Same goes for changes to a lessor extent. > synaptic is just too heavy, that is why redhat needs aptitude badly. > > Finialy redhat needs a tool to simplify pinning packages. > Something equivalent to > dpkg --get-settings, --set-settings that grabs pinned packages from a > file withing the apt.conf.d directory. > Please do this in a separate file, no need to mess up the users > apt.conf. > hmm, I think will go and create this as a perl script, but > what to pin needs to be based on something. > hmm, a list of bugs would be nice see above apt-listbugs > > P.S. I really like the directories for apt.conf.d and source.list.d > This is a wonderful idea redhat, my hat off to you. > > -Tim.
