Oliver - Thank you for your detail explanation... Todd Oliver Falk wrote: > On 09/05/2005 04:58 PM, Todd Cary wrote: > >> I have seen messages posted on the Fedora oriented forums that imply >> that "yum" is antiquated. Not being a Linux guru, I do not have the >> experience to make a thorough evaluation, but so far it has been just >> great. > > > First of all: You shall not believe everything that you read. :-) > > Yum, is one of the youngest players in the rpm update world. Yum has > been (re-)written by Seth Vidal. > > Project page: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ > > Nothing more to say, if you read the project page. Yum is still under > active development by Seth and friends; So antiquated is not correct! > > What is antiquated in some way is up2date. It's still used by RH and > there are good reasons for 'em to use it... > > What is also antiquated in some way is apt. But my recommandation > against apt comes from technical view: apt wasn't meant to play with > rpm, even if it seems to work fine. > > However... > > yum is currently the best tool for Fedora, CentOS, AlphaLinux, etc. > because it's easy to use, it's easy to build own repositories and > there are MANY yum-repositories out there allready... And yum knows > how to play well with rpm... > > Best, > Oliver > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523