Yum is my current favorite. It's rather yummy. I do still keep an apt on my system, but only because the Planet CCRMA repository is not yet yumable. David Bruzos writes: > Hi: > Fedora comes with a package manager called "yum" which provides similar functionality to "apt". I like yum very very > much. It is simple to use and very powerful. There are many yum rpm databases on the net too. Most software > you would ever need you can get by typing: > # yum install package1 package2 package3 ... > > The only disadvantage of "yum" is that it is much slower than "apt", because it is written in python. However, it does > not really matter, because the handling of RPMS is performed by the "rpm" program, which runs at full speed... You > might just see that it takes a long time to find dependencies and stuff like that. I use it > on a 300 MHZ machine without any problems, so most people should not have problems either. > > David Bruzos >
