[plug] Red Hat package management

[Brad Campbell]

Craig Ringer wrote:
>>>> 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.

You can, it's called dselect and it's been there for years. dselect has 
other backends than apt and they all solve the same problem
:-~~~~~~~

;p)
Brad
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