[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

Michael B. Trausch mike at trausch.us
Thu Aug 23 15:36:30 EDT 2007


Jeff Lightner, on 08/23/2007 11:08 AM said:
> What crap - yum works well for me.   If you haven't tried it in years
> how can you say it doesn't work.  I've been using it since FC4 and
> haven't found any major issues with it.
> 
> As noted it figures out the dependencies for you.  Trying to throw the
> old "rpm dependency hell" argument out as a reason not to use rpm based
> distros while ignoring yum is specious at best.
> 

Indeed it is.  I was operating on the apparently mistaken assumption
that the one-click update programs used 'yum'.  It would seem from the
progression of this thread that I was in error.

	-- Mike

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