[Yum] Redhat tools vs YUM

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On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 18:47 +0800, Kenneth Young wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> People are telling me that YUM is no longer actively developed (read: 
> they tell me "don't use yum").

yum is very much actively developed. Take a look at yum-devel list:
http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel

> They say there's no longer any point in YUM because  the more recent 
> version of Redhat's rpm tools
> already handles multi-level of dependecy lookahead (when you specify a 
> flag).  They mentioned the
> feature should be in Advanced Server 3 or so.

what tool are you talking about?


> I have not been able to find out how rpm does that, on Fedora Core 3 or 
> on Redhat AS3 update3.
> I thought of asking a question on the redhat mailing list, but being a 
> yum fan, I thought I will ask here first.....
> 
> What are we with respect to the other installer?

with respect to anaconda?
Is that the installer you're speaking of?

-sv



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