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Dependency management is hard and RedHats solution was pretty poor. Debian/Ubuntu got apt which meant it was really easy to install packages. It took a long tim
by tinus_hn 6y ago
Dependency management is hard and RedHats solution was pretty poor. Debian/Ubuntu got apt which meant it was really easy to install packages. It took a long time for RedHat to get something similar.
The flip side was that it’s much easier to build rpms.
- nineteen999 6y agoyum comes from Yellow Dog Linux, circa 1999. apt comes from Debian, around 1997. The Redhat solution follows the Debian solution by about 2-3 years. Ubuntu didn't even exist until 2004. So please, cut down on the hyperbole.
- tinus_hn 6y agoYum wasn’t in RedHat in 1999. Back then there were a ton of distributions. Most of those that were descendant from RedHat came with their own set of tools and yum was only one of many (like zypp and apt-rpm). And of course the reason there were so many is that the developer of rpm, RedHat, had nothing on offer. Debian had apt so their descendent distributions didn’t develop alternatives. RedHat Enterprise/Fedora adopted yum around 2003, as far as I can tell and RedHat the original free distribution never did. Certainly not in 1999.