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From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] Why Yum and Not Apt ?
Date: Mon, Mar 19, 2018 12:44 PM
Possible reasons:
1. yum was easier to port than apt.
2. Jesse has yum at home on his machine.
3. Jesse was hungry when he sat down to port and his wife brought him
a
snack and he said yum
4. It was Thursday
5. Unspecified and philosophically unimportant technical reason.
I never could get the hang of Thursdays!
The simple answer is that the AIX Toolbox team already ported yum to AIX,
so it was pretty much a noop to port to PASE (#1 above). If I hadn't ran
in to so many issues porting zypper, we'd probably have that instead (#2
above, since I use openSUSE at home).
AFAIK, nobody has tried to port apt/dpkg to any OS besides Linux. The
tools surrounding apt/dpkg are also heavily coupled to the Debian
ecosystem as well.
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