[PlanetCCRMA] Re: yum

[David Fraser]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:45:09PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
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>>Any chance to yum-ify the Planet repository?
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>>apt is fine and dandy, but PlanetCCRMA is based on Fedora, and it seems
>>like the majority of Fedora users prefer yum - and most of the other
>>Fedora software repositories are based on yum or at least yum-enabled.
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>I agree that yum support in PlanetCCRMA would be nice. But there are
>still more apt users in fedora that yum users, even though yum comes
>with the CDs shipped. At least that's what my web stats say (3:1) and
>I know freshrpms has similar stats.
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>BTW you need to make stats based on visitors, not hits, as yum
>generates quite a lot of hits ...
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I know this is a bit off-topic, but can anyone explain exactly why yum 
was written? It seems to just be a copy of apt to me... I haven't been 
able to find any information on the web on real feature comparisons 
between the two

David