3 ms·
I 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 shortc
by petre 8y ago
I 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.