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> , apt is probably the most advanced package manager currently. Apt is certainly the best package manager in my opinion. I haven't used rpm based package mana
by craigsmansion 8y ago
> , apt is probably the most advanced package manager currently.
Apt is certainly the best package manager in my opinion. I haven't used rpm based package managers in a while, but I doubt they don't have feature parity at this point.
I think the magic ingredient of apt that makes it work so seamless is the thousands of diligent maintainers behind it. That's the "feature" that none of the other packaging systems have at the moment.
I also have a deep respect for the raw no-nonsense approach of the various BSDs, but every time I try running it in a professional capacity, the apt eco-system lures me back.
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- petre 8y agoI use both apt, pkg-ng and yast/zypper/rpm. Both apt and pkg-ng work well. Apt has --really-long-switches that are easy to remember but not quite as many shortcuts for them. Sometimes pkg-ng is annoyingly upgrading itself but that's it. Rpm is rather annoying but zypper and yast make things easy to manage. I remember the old RedHat 4.2 days when I had to work with rpm exclusively; it has an inconsistent CLI with weird command line switches.
- dmacvicar 8y agoYou shouldn't compare rpm with apt. rpm is a different layer equivalent to dpkg in the Debian world. As you point out, apt layer/functionality is provided by zypper, yum, dnf, etc. and the main difference is that it is not unified across the main rpm distributions. Still, Fedora/Redhat yum replacement, dnf, is built on SUSE/openSUSE zypper's solver library (libsolv).
- petre 8y agoI know. Dpkg is more consistent anyway.