On Sunday 18 July 2004 12:13 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > What is the advantage apt-get has over urpm*? I used it only for a > short amount of time on Debian and as far as I can tell, the urpm* > suite of programs seem to be equivalent to apt-get. But as I said, I > am not fluent when it comes to apt-get. > On the command line, the differences are minimal IMO, but there is a large group of people that prefer the gui frontend called synaptic. I am speaking for them here, but they prefer the integrated functionality as opposed to the simple approach taken by rpmdrake.
Personally, it doesn't much matter to me because I work primarily from the command line now, but as they say, difernt strokes for difernt folks. -- /g
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