Do we need this crap on LWN? [LWN.net]

Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 21, 2007 18:19 UTC (Wed) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688)
In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by markc
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

You are confusing the apt system with debs. Debs are the packages just like RPMs are packages. Debian-based distros use the apt tools to resolve dependencies. RPM people use a program called yum to resolve dependencies.

Here's a list of how things are similar (debian <-> redhat):

debs are similar to rpms (the packages)
dpkg (the program) is similar to rpm (the program)
apt is similar to yum

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