APT, Yum and Red Carpet

[Pavel Rozenboim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Deragon [mailto:hans at deragon.biz]
> Sent: Tue, August 12, 2003 3:37 PM
> To: rhl-beta-list at redhat.com
> Subject: APT, Yum and Red Carpet
> 
> 
> >>Is apt going to make it, or just yum?  (Or, in other words, 
> am I really
> >>gonna have to break down and learn yum?)
> 
> IMHO, we should stick with one upgrade system only.  Lets 
> take the best 
> and support it.  The last thing I want is a community with full of 
> repositories, half apt and half yum.  Its time to make a standard for 
> package distribution within Red Hat and we should use one 
> system wisely. 
>   I do not care which one it is, as long as it is the best.
> 
> It would be very couterproductive for my grandma to have to 
> use apt for 
> installing one appl, and yum for installing another.  Imagine 
> that she 
> has to first browse the list of apps available through apt, 
> do not find 
> the software and then browse through the list of apps on yum. 
>  Not very 
> intuitive.  Not the way to go.  This is one case where competition is 
> not welcomed, but a standard is.

I found yum to be much slower comparing to apt. On the other hand, apt
sometimes finds some non-existing dependancies, and wants to remove some
packages, when is not required.

Pavel.