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Fedora/Red Hat use yum, although their's a dnf fork now.



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Schoen [mailto:Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 9:51 AM
To: opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [IBMiOSS] Why Yum and Not Apt ?

This is more just a curiosity question.

Probably directed to Aaron and Kevin Adler.

Is there a reason Yum was ported and not Apt for receiving and installing packages ?

I work with Ubuntu and variants and that uses Apt heavily.

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
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