On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 09:53 -0700, Brian Phillips wrote: > That would be an interesting poll. Chime in if you've ever installed apt on > fedora or another distro that didn't have it natively (like ubuntu does). > I'm interested in finding out how popular the said prospect is. You also > need to have run it for longer than 2 weeks. It doesn't count if you did it > to see if it was possible and then whiped it a few days later.
I've used apt-get on Fedora Core for years. It rocks. In fact I think that almost all Fedora users on this list use apt-get. > > I once THOUGHT about it...but then I just threw my fedora out the window and > went with debian... It seems like an entire waste of time to change one of > the main things that, in my opinion, _defines_ a particular distro rather > than use what the distro supplies. It's like taking a particular distro and > making the Moore-distro or the Brian-distro, it's just too much of a change. Well apt-get does not define what Debian is. The Debian package manager is dpkg not apt-get. Adding apt-get to Fedora is a very natural thing. The only reason Fedora isn't shipping it by default is that yum seems to work very well for a lot of people. Michael > > Brian > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
