At Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:00:14 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Dear Centos community, I am new to centos/redhat and I would like to know on a centos system, can I use yum alone to do all package management? I don't want to learn two systems and confuse myself, I understand yum is much better than rpm if is the case?
yum is layered on top of RPM. That is, yum uses rpm itself to actually manage packages. yum adds several additional features/functions:
1) It deals with dependencies (rpm only complains about dependencies, but makes no attempt on its own to resolve dependencies).
2) It deals with updates from one (or more) repositories. A repository is a collection of RPMs, from which updates and/or dependencies can be resolved as well as a source of packages to install.
Thank you!
Jim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos