On Monday 02 February 2004 00:05, Bob Byron wrote:

> Has there been any thought given to making a YUM install?
>
> YUM seems to be taking the Linux community by storm.
> It makes package installation very trivial. I don't
> know all of the particulars, but it is doing a great job
> keeping my system up to date. It would be awesome if
> all I had to do is to issue the command "yum install firebird"
> and it went on its way.
>

Pardon me for being cynical but... do a sed and replace YUM with rpm or
apt-get and the above will read just the same.

But yes, I am cynical, not least because I'm one part of the Linux
community that has never heard of YUM, let alone been taken by storm.


Paul
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