Brian Phillips wrote:
Chime in if you've ever installed apt on
fedora or another distro that didn't have it natively (like ubuntu does).
I'll chime in with "me too" like some braindead AOL-er (to paraphrase
Mr. Yankovic).
Back when I was still using Red Hat/Fedora, I used Apt (starting with
Synaptic and then eventually sticking with the console Apt) from before
Red Hat had Yum (I believe). I kept using Apt even after Yum came with
Fedora because I was used to it. Eventually I got to where I used both
Yum and Apt. I like the fact that Yum updating doesn't require an
explicit command to sync with the repository manifest, but other than
that I thought they were both very solid and convenient.
Note that using both Yum and Apt at the same time is not always a good
idea, although in my case it never gave me any problems. For Red Hat,
though, I'm not sure which I'd recommend more. Debian's Apt borders on
package-management Nirvana (althoug as a power user, I still prefer
Portage for myself), but Red Hat's Apt doesn't quite manage everything
Debian's does.
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