[WBEL-users] Switch over to APT

[Johnny Hughes]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:58 -0600, John Morris wrote:
> 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.
> 

This is definitely a problem (multi-arch / mutli-lib) ... and I am
personally waiting for an answer from the maintainer concerning if /
when apt-rpm is going to support multi-arch to decide apt's inclusion in
CentOS-4.  In fact, this one issue is probably going to move apt out of
the distro and into the contrib for i386 only in CentOS-4.  The apt
metadata will probably be included though.

-- 
Johnny Hughes
<http://www.HughesJR.com/>