Whats better Synaptic or Yum?

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Whats better Synaptic or Yum?

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View Poll Results: Which is better
Yum	1	33.33%
Synaptic	2	66.67%
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01-02-2005, 11:06 AM	#1
Jmcatch742 Member Registered: Jul 2004 Distribution: Mepis, Ubuntu, Slackity slack Posts: 159 Rep:	Whats better Synaptic or Yum? And explain why.

01-02-2005, 01:06 PM	#2
XavierP Moderator Registered: Nov 2002 Location: Kent, England Distribution: Debian Testing Posts: 19,192 Blog Entries: 4 Rep:	Synaptic is a front end, YUM is a backend. Personally, I prefer apples over oranges, but that's just me.

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