Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 11, 2005 04:39 PM
Why do you write that Portage was the first system? It came along with Gentoo, or not? Gentoo was around 2002, and there even yast existed, which is able to solve dependencies and all the stuff. apt and yum existed there, too.
About yum: well, I would call Fedora, which is completly setting up on yum, a larger distribution. I dont't think that even Foresight and rPath together has a user base which is as big as the Fedora/Red Hat user base... Others, like CentOS and Scientific Linux, which are derivatices of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, are using yum, too.
So: Although I see that, for example, yast, yum and urpmi are not able to build from source (what is not option for a averare computer user, by the way), I do not see the other advantages of these described tools.
Are they able to use mirror-lists like yum and smart? How can they work against the often called "dependency hell" which comes up when two developers start to submit the same package to different repositories?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 11, 2005 04:39 PMAbout yum: well, I would call Fedora, which is completly setting up on yum, a larger distribution. I dont't think that even Foresight and rPath together has a user base which is as big as the Fedora/Red Hat user base...
Others, like CentOS and Scientific Linux, which are derivatices of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, are using yum, too.
So: Although I see that, for example, yast, yum and urpmi are not able to build from source (what is not option for a averare computer user, by the way), I do not see the other advantages of these described tools.
Are they able to use mirror-lists like yum and smart? How can they work against the often called "dependency hell" which comes up when two developers start to submit the same package to different repositories?
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