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Charles Jones wrote:
> Anyone want to talk about why they like yum versus apt or vice versa? :)

Well since you ask.  Yum is the biggest piece of crap that exists on
Linux.  To be fair to yum it's partially because rpm has major
problems--but some of the problems are it's own fault.

RPM is slow so yum is slow.  rpm cannot ask for user input so apps may
or may not be configured correctly after installation.

the output from yum is horrible.  yum search is a poor shadow of
apt-cache search.  I'd hate to try to maintain GUI tools built on top of
yum.

yum does an extremely poor job of accepting Ctrl+C--probably bc rpm does
a poor job too.

YUM CANNOT DOWNLOAD A PACKAGE WITHOUT INSTALLING IT.  This is extremely
annoying because it means I can't have my servers download the updates
and sit on them until I install them myself.

There's more. but I'm tired of thinking.  For most people they will
never come in contact with any of this (except the slowness) because
they will use GUI tools for managing apps.

P.S. apt on rpm based systems suffers from some of the same problems but
at least they got the output right.

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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