Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017)
by petre on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:35AM
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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.
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Re:BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017)
by dmacvicar on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @11:48AM
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You 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).