[plug] Red Hat package management

[Craig Ringer]

>>>I get the impression I'm missing something. I asked on the surprisingly
>>>unhelpful #RedHat channel on freenode and was basically told that people
>>>install apt-get for rpm. Is that really the only solution?
>>
>>Yes, sadly. Fedora's up2date supports apt and yum repositories however,
>>so that /has/ been fixed. At long last.
> 
> Thanks for the info. Now I understand why people moan so much about RPM and 
> why they like apt-get so much. 

There's a common misunderstanding there. RPM has nothing to do with APT 
really - it's /dpkg/ it should be being compared to. The issue has been 
the total lack of any equivalent of apt on many RPM-based distros, 
causing people to think that RPM is the problem. It isn't - just try 
using a Debian system without apt.

Now that urpmi, up2date, etc are providing apt like services, as well as 
APT having been ported to work with RPM, things are much better.

> Without the layer of intelligence supplied by 
> SUSE and, it appears, Mandrake, it's hopelessly difficult and inconvenient to 
> use.

Yup.

Craig Ringer

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