[WBEL-users] Switch over to APT

[John Morris]

On 27 Dec 2004 offline.2800382@bloglines.com wrote:

> I've been running yum on WBEL for a fair while now, and I've basically given
> up on it -- It's slow, it doesn't permit me to terminate operations reliably
> on SIGINT, etc...  Essentially, for all that I'm sure it has its advantages,
> I don't like it much.

Yum has one big one over apt, multi-arch support.  Since debian didn't do
their x86_64 port to support bi-arch (they treat it as just another 64 bit
platform) it might be a bit before anyone else steps up to the plate and
adds it to apt.

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