Package Management
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Nov 19 09:09:48 CST 2004
On Thursday 18 November 2004 05:39 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
> Not that portage isn't a great package management utility.
> It's far far better than rpm.
RPM and Portage are almost completely different tools for very different
purposes. All RPM does is manage the packages - it handles the
installations, tracks what's installed, and what's dependent on what. The
portage system includes the ability to fetch packages, fetch dependent
packages, etc. It would be more realistic to compare Portage to up2date,
urpmi, or YaST.
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