yum or apt?

[Goosemaster]

I personally have always used aptitudeon every distro, but I tried learning yum since it was the default package manager in centos and RHEL and figured professionals used it.

So even on centos, what would you recommend?


Thanks🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

yum...

 

[DarkThinker]

YUM IMO

<---- Long time Fedora User and Loyalist 😀

 

[Nothinman]

I don't think anyone really maintains apt or any repos for it on RH-like distros any more which is sad because apt is so much better than yum.

 

[Brazen]

yum

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I don't think anyone really maintains apt or any repos for it on RH-like distros any more which is sad because apt is so much better than yum.

really? 🙁

why is it better?


for the sake of all that's good in the world...reasons😀


I've seen some comparisons, but they make it out to be apples and oranges

 

[Nothinman]

why is it better?

Reasons 1-5 are all "python" IMO. Speed, memory usage and anything else that comes up in a python vs C++ argument.

The main other reason is that yum is so damned slow that it's insane. And when you install FC, or I guess just F7 now, the damn yum-updatesd (or whatever it's called) does it's thing in the background so if you run yum to try and update manually they butt heads. You literally have to wait until the little UI thing pops up and says "You have X updates ready" before you can use yum for anything else. That might be able to be worked around but it's been that way in the 6 and 7 release AFAIK and is extremely frustrating.

And now libapt will be tracking automatic package installations. So if I install eclipse with apt it'll mark all of the dependencies as "installed automatically" and will automatically remove them for me when I remove eclipse. aptitude has been doing this for a while and it's awesome but now that it's being moved to libapt everything will have that feature.

I've seen some comparisons, but they make it out to be apples and oranges

Depends on the perspective of the comparison. yum and apt were both written to serve the same goals so from that perspective it's apples to apples (like IE vs FF) and from that they probably are comparable. Most of the differences come from the implementation (python vs C++) and the underlying package manager (rpm vs dpkg) and in both cases the latter wins in both comparisons IMO.

 

[Goosemaster]

thanks nothinman🙂