[ale] Suse or Red Hat? (yes, yes, i know here we go again...)

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 20 June 2003 09:13 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 June 2003 03:57 pm, Preston Boyington wrote:
> >>will apt4rpm work with Suse?  i am guessing that mp3's and dvd's play
> >>easily?  or will i have to update the features myself?
> >
> > Yes, there are apt servers for SuSE.  See
> > http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ for a discussion of apt on SuSE.
>
> Personally, with the advantage of YAST2, I can't imagine why you would
> want to use apt.
>
> What is it you get with apt that you don't get with YAST2?

I always found YAST clumsy.  That may have been before YAST2, however.

How is the YAST2 command line?  I always thought it was a graphical 
(curses, at least) tool.  Can you install a package and all it's 
dependencies on the command line?  Can you get all the updates via cron?

My impression is that YAST2 was an admin tool, not just a package tool, but 
I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to SuSE.  Please educate me.

Michael
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