At Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:00:14 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/