Re: [IBMiOSS] Why Yum and Not Apt ?

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the insights, Kevin!!

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Kevin Adler <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>      From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>      Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] Why Yum and Not Apt ?
>      Date: Mon, Mar 19, 2018 12:44 PM
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>      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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