On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Peter Poeml
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:23:24AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
* yum * yum-utils
These packages are also my every-day life.
Just curious: Do they have any advantage still over zypper in openSUSE 11.0? Or is it just "I have always used yum" ;)
Yes, for instance the ability to show the package changelog diff for pacakges to be updated, or the ability to keep kernels instead of removing them during update, or the ability to be easily built and used on older distributions.
I think we can open feature-requests for zypper. Another point where "yum" is better than "zypper" is that yum shows the repository from which the package is being installed. Very useful if you have many repos with duplicate packages. But I think it belong to separate thread. (opensuse-factory ?)
And of course the fact that it is tried and tested, and not "brand new hot in-flux stuff" like zypper, that yet has to stabilize, before I can depend on it for things like server administration.
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