[ale] Fedora 15

[The Don Lachlan]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 09:45:56PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 19:12 -0400, The Don Lachlan wrote:
> > I've not used yum in a few years and it had definitely improved its speed
> > from the walk-away-do-something-else pace it used to be but, compared to APT, it
> > was still slooooowwwwwwwwww.
> > RPM is a poor substitute for Deb and every attempt to improve upon it is
> > still dealing with inherent failures of the packaging system. I say this as
> > someone who has WRITTEN dozens, maybe approaching a hundred, of spec files
> > and managed them. It's easier to write than a Deb but harder on the user.
> 
> Not arguing, asking:  I thought technically they were the same, but the
> difference was in the front end:  Are you saying otherwise? (Old Debhead
> here)

Which were the same? RPM and Deb are distinctly different. APT was
originally for Deb but others have re-written it to work with RPM. APT is
pretty awesome but there are limitations within RPM that it doesn't/can't
address.

-L