On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:05:22PM +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Additionally, since yum was written for rpm rather than ported to rpm, > it's code base is much smaller. I call that short sighted :) > While it may not be true anymore, Apt use to do things kind of dirty - > using its own dependency resolution and telling rpm to ignore its > dependency resolution, thus yum was better integrated with rpm. Emphasis on *was*. apt-rpm doesn't do that anymore for a long time now. > Also - and you *may* be able to do this with apt, but I don't think so, > want to install a group of packages you forgot to select at CD install > time? > > yum grouplist That is totally distro-dependent. No need to have the package tool to implement this separately. Just use meta-packages. For example: apt-get install task-profile-sambaserver Where task-profile-sambaserver is a simple rpm package with no files whatsoever which exists just to pull in the right dependencies. > That will show what is available. apt-cache search task-profile > yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" > > That will install the KDE Desktop Environment apt-get install task-kde > yum is really nice - and the current metadata yum has improved in speed > signifigantly. I'm sure it is, and believe me when I say I'm not trying to tell you that apt is better or worse: I'm just showing how the things you said are done in the apt-rpm world. BTW, why doesn't yum stop when I hit CTRL-C to abort an update in progress?
