> Here is my first posting and a question. > > I read a page "Obvious Questions" through: > Q. Why not just use apt-rpm? > A. a number of reasons > > But, I do not understand well still now. > A number of "GOOD" reasons are raised for using YUM, > instead of APT. It seems to me that any useful tool > has always have two sides: merits and demerits. > So that, it would be appreciated if any explanations > are given to these two package managers. oh sure, there is lots of stuff wrong with yum. In worse case scenarios yum can take a lot longer to process dependencies. Something that is being worked on in a round-the-bout way. > Or, there is no demerits at all to introduce YUM, compared > with APT? That is a point, because Fedora Core Release 1 > (Yarrow) offers both YUM and APT, adding up2date, which > may confuse users. This discussion never bears useful fruit. Yum and apt tend to come at the problem in ways that are different enough to make a comparison non trivial. That 'why not just use apt-rpm' question is a leftover on the webpage from when I used to get a lot of email from people telling me not to bother with yum b/c apt rocked and I sucked. I should probably just take it down b/c I don't get messages like that very often. -sv
