Re: yum and apt differences.

[Rick Johnson <rjohnson medata com>]

David Rees wrote:

> I don't think that apt should automatically install any gpg keys, others
> have shown the same reservation.

Agreed - if you're connecting to an untrusted mirror, it'd be too easy 
to forge a key and sign malicious packages.

> I don't have a problem with yum installing the latest kernel as it does
> not make the new kernel the default in the bootloader and does not remove
> the old kernel, either.  As far as making apt install kernels by default,
> I can't say I recommend it do it either way (so leave it be?).

In cases where I've run it interactively, it *has* set the new kernel as 
default.

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