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On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 06:17 -0400, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:38:48PM -0400, William Ricker wrote: > > > > I suppose I'm not too invested in APT to switch to RPMs, > > > > > Apt or dpkg? Apt is just a front-end for the packaging system, and > > > there's a version of apt for RPM based systems. > > > > Well that's true -- I have very little invested in 'dpkg' per se. > > I've learned the 'apt-*' commands I need, but I've also bought into some > > of the Debian philosophy. Does APT for RPMs do as good a job with > > dependencies? > > Yes, but only with the proviso that the repository you are using > has to supply the dependency information. This is possible if > you have put together the repository yourself; otherwise, you > are probably out of luck. Hi Bill, Recent versions of yum (as shipped with FC2, FC3, and the upcoming FC4) are more-or-less drop-in replacements for apt. And there are a number of both "Fedora official" and 3rd-part yum repositories with thousands of packages. Here are a few if you'd like to give them a try: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php Ed ps - I don't in any way mean to insult apt, dpkg, or any Debian-based distros. They were, originally, way ahead of any RPM-based package management systems. However, yum has grown up and is now very close to feature-parity. -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: eh3 at mit.edu ed at eh3.com URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464
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