[Gllug] Fedora 6 out at 14:00

Tue Oct 24 11:43:10 UTC 2006

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 12:07 +0100, Peter Cannon wrote:
> Oh God yes, IMO nearly all 'package managers?' are pretty much the same Yast, 
> Yum, Apt etc, I guessed what was being said was really about .deb over rpm

It's neither.  A .deb and .rpm are just lumps of data with some bits of
info to tell you how to use them.  The package manager just reads this
info and drops files, executes scripts etc according to a list of
instructions.

The big difference is policy.  

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