apt or yum?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Sat May 15 15:59:05 UTC 2004


On Fri, 14 May 2004, Carlos Villegas wrote:
> 
> PS: I use yum at work, and apt-get (for debian) at home.
> PS2: one thing I love about apt-get is the "source" command, but
> 	not sure if it's available for the rpm version of
> 	apt-get, I also heard rumors that it would eventually 
> 	appear in yum, but I'm not sure what the status of that
> 	is.

Sure "source" and "build-dep" and such work in apt-rpm as well. In fact 
apt-rpm is in many ways far more advanced than "Debian apt". See 
http://lwn.net/Articles/60650/ for a list of some killer features (IMHO) 
in apt-rpm which are not present in Debian version.

	- Panu -





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