On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:37:49 -0500, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:16 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > a quick sumup: > > > > synaptic is a nice GUI for apt. > > > > up2date is only usefull to show pending updates > > > > yum is only usefull after fc2 (IMO), unless you are dealing with > > multilib. > > > > So for fc<3, use apt. For fc>3, use yum. If x86_64, use yum. > > > > That is the simple explanation. > > I disagree, of course, if you're looking for repositories you're going > to have more luck finding yum repositories for FC-2. > > -sv > > > -- > > Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list > Another difference: in synaptic you can browse for packages. AFAIK you can't do that with yum. Dotan Cohen http://English-Lyrics.com http://Song-Lyriks.com -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
