Ladislav Bodnar compared different package management systems on the major Linux distributions out there, like apt-get, urpmi and yum. Debian is the overall winner, but Mandrake's urpmi had some very good points too. Interesting quote about Redhat/Fedora : Although yum is now in rawhide, I don't expect to see it in a released version of RHL or RHEL. Why do I say this? Because the newest up2date that will ship with the upcoming RHEL and RHL now supports remote "yum" and "apt" repositories in addition to the native "rhn-style" repositories. Since up2date now speaks all languages (rhn, apt, yum) there is no need to ship those other tools.
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