[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Fri Aug 24 10:11:47 EDT 2007


Jeff Lightner wrote:
>
> Having installed Debian (Sarge and Woody) along with Redhat and Fedora I
> am continually amazed at folks that think that the apt style utilities
> are easier than Yum.  These apt utilities IMO are NOT intuitive to use
> at all.
>   
I fail to see how "yum install foobar" is so much more intutitive than 
"aptitude install foobar".

It's what you are used to.  I primarily use Ubuntu and CentOS and find 
yum and aptitude equally good for their tasks. 

Jim.



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