On 10/25/07, Bob Proulx <bob proulx com> wrote:
'apt' is as necessary for 'dpkg' as 'yum'/'urpmi'/etc. is for 'rpm'.
Which is to say that it is not. But it is still very useful and
arguably a good way to use the tools.
You miss the point.
Sure apt and yum are useful and needed.
Displaying the arch of a package using apt/yum is
hardly useful or needed when it can be trivially
done by configuring rpm.
Which is (or was) the context of this thread.
73 de Jeff