abcde for fedora?

[Janina Sajka]

Yum is my current favorite. It's rather yummy.

I do still keep an apt on my system, but only because the Planet CCRMA
repository is not yet yumable.

David Bruzos writes:
> Hi:
> Fedora comes with a package manager called "yum" which provides similar functionality to "apt".  I like yum very very 
> much.  It is simple to use and very powerful.  There are many yum rpm databases on the net too. Most software 
> you would ever need you can get by typing:
> # yum install package1 package2 package3 ...
> 
> The only disadvantage of "yum" is that it is much slower than "apt", because it is written in python.  However, it does 
> not really matter, because the handling of RPMS is performed by the "rpm" program, which runs at full speed...  You 
> might just see that it takes a long time to find dependencies and stuff like that.  I use it 
> on a 300 MHZ machine without any problems, so most people should not have problems either.
> 
> David Bruzos
>