On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:20:31PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
One of course could argue "If CentOS wants to be 100% compatible
to RHEL
then they should not add something to their Base OS that's not strictly
needed" -- but I suppose some people would send out the Nijas after
someone that dares to say that.
This is historical: CentOS started when RHEL was still using up2date.
Obviously, that wasn't an option, and neither was having *no* high-level
package management system, so they replaced it with yum.
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