keith smith wrote:
> has RPM matured to the point it works like apt-get or yum where it
> automatically resolves dependencies? Which is better? Yum or RPM?
yum depends on the rpm utilities, and is in many ways a frontend for rpm. You
enter "yum install foo", then yum figures out that foo depends on libbarf,
then yum looks in its config file and downloads libbarf-1.2.3.x86_64.rpm and
foo-1.0.0.x86_64.rpm from the configured repositories, then yum runs "rpm
-Uvh" on those packages. rpm doesn't resolve dependencies as that's not its
function. At least that's how it looks like it works on CentOS and Redhat.
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