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Don't be misled

Don't be misled

Posted Jan 6, 2004 17:38 UTC (Tue) by leandro (guest, #1460)
In reply to: Don't be misled by skvidal
Parent article: Revisiting RPM Package Management

> I think one of the reasons red hat has put yum in rawhide before apt (and note, it's just BEFORE, it's not INSTEAD) is that yum, is about 7000 lines of code, while apt is 40000+.

This has more to do with their homegrown RPM that they decided to use instead of help finishing dpkg at the time.


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