On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, ext Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Matilainen Panu (NRC/Helsinki) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> > > Also, for some this is a policy decision.  At least if you want to
> > > automate the upgrading.
> > >
> > > In a bigger scale this would also be way faster on 100 Mbit/s
> > > connection ;-)
> >
> > I have a hard time imagining life without apt on Red Hat based system now
> > that I've gotten used to it. up2date, where it can be used, does a nice
> > job of system upgrades but the rpm-hunting when installing software is
> > still the pain it always was. With apt life is .. nice :) and I can
> > certainly understand why Debian users are so proud about it.
>
> Um, you can use up2date to install packages as well, not just upgrade them...

Ok granted I had missed that, but the problem how to install customized
packages with it still remains and basically makes it useless for wide
range of uses.

        - Panu -

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